With regard to the legal mandate, section 12 of the act defines the service's mandate. There is no geographic restriction. The service gathers information when it has reasons to suspect that activities are related to a threat, in accordance with the definition contained in section 2 of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act. However, that act imposes no geographic limit for the gathering of security intelligence. Our overseas activities consist, among other things, in the gathering of security intelligence, that is information on activities that pose a threat to the security of Canada.
On May 11th, 2010. See this statement in context.