You have to understand that, with like-minded partners, we do work overseas jointly. It's not like we would go into a friendly country and do things covertly. As a security intelligence service, and not just as a service—all of our partners do conduct operations covertly. That's kind of obvious. Although it might not be specific in their legislation, that's what a security service will do at times. Most of the time, for the service, we do our work overtly with our partners when they are like-minded, but there could be occasions when we're sending intelligence officers, for example, into countries that are not like-minded, when we might not tell that country what we're doing, because of the national interests of Canada but also for the safety of our officers.
On November 24th, 2014. See this statement in context.