The mandate of CSIS is to investigate threats to Canada's security. We live in a big world with a lot of terrorist threats that don't respect borders and that move around quite freely. In such a world, it's very important that our security intelligence service enter into arrangements to exchange information with foreign states. Some of them are nicer than others. CSIS recognizes this fact. It is now more attentive than I think it has ever been in the past to the need to examine the human rights records of the organizations and countries with which it enters into these arrangements and to ensure that it limits its exchanges, to whatever degree seems appropriate—I'm sort of speaking for the service here—given the facts for each country. Since Justice O'Connor's report was published, they have beefed up their own internal analysis of the human rights records of the countries they exchange information with, and they take better care to....
On March 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.