First of all, in terms of CSIS conducting activities outside Canada—and you talked about the McDonald commission but I'm not going to quote it—I'm pretty sure the report does talk about the creation of CSIS and that you would have to be very careful, but they were already seeing the possibility that we would have to do this. It has always been our understanding that we have that authority. That's why this is just a clarification, making it explicit in the act that we can do what we've been doing for 30 years, because that was the interpretation of.... If you look at section 16, there's a clear restriction: it's within Canada, which you do not find in section 12.
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