Let me say to begin with that I think you need to approach the work on the basis that CSIS is, as we are, a professional organization that takes pride in what they do. They take it seriously. The people who work there are recruited with great care. They are trained and they spend most of their working career in that line of work. It's very much a professional segregated body that has its own cultural implications. I'm not going to go into it, but we're the same. We tend to keep people for a number of years at SIRC and develop their expertise in this field of review and in the world of security intelligence.
I think the relationship depends very greatly on constant, careful communication and dialogue with one another. It's necessary in order to ensure that the work we're doing is reasonable, is focused in a way that will be helpful to us and ultimately to them. I think our role is to assist the service in maintaining the highest possible level of professionalism and effectiveness as a security intelligence agency. I sometimes like to say, after all, we're all working for Canadians. I do not see it as an adversarial role. That's not to say that sometimes we don't disagree. We do. Sometimes we end up agreeing to disagree, and we're not going to see eye-to-eye on certain issues or recommendations we've made.
My experience is that often our recommendations tend to end up being published after steps have already begun to address the issues that have been uncovered through the reviews that we have conducted that led to that recommendation. In other words, through the dialogue and through the process of review, issues have become apparent on both sides and the service has already started to implement steps that will address the recommendation. By the time the recommendation is done, they've already partially or completely taken up what we've suggested they do. We don't direct them. We don't manage them. We don't tell them what to do. We leave it to them to look at the recommendations and assess whether they want to take those on board and how they want to implement them.