I think you're asking me to do something that's very difficult. It's something we tend to do on a case-by-case basis. As I tried to suggest in my opening remarks, there really is a spectrum of activities that go from the totally innocuous to somebody who, because of a secret influence or a threat of some sort, changes his or her position. As you move towards the second part of that spectrum it becomes, I think, increasingly obvious that there is a problem.
If over the years it became obvious, for example, that somebody was receiving benefits and that these benefits were not generally known, that the individual was in contact on a regular basis with an agent of a foreign power, we would become concerned on two points: one, that foreign influence was being exercised; and two, we'd be concerned about the Canadian being subjected to the kind of pressure that's really not appropriate. So we would then open a file and start looking at it in more detail.
At some point, truthfully, it is a question of judgment within the service and interdepartmentally and eventually in the government whether you've passed that threshold you were talking about.
