I would call it a national security act. In my view, in terms of the ground it covers, it certainly does give primacy to the covert over amplifying, say, the criminal side. I know it has some important criminal provisions, in terms of peace bonds and preventive detention, but to the extent that its renovation of CSIS in terms of its traditional functions is quite dramatic, it does seem to give primacy to that side of the national security agenda.
In terms of whether it covers terrorism, we've already spoken a little bit about the concept of undermining the security of Canada, which is a much broader, vast concept that encompasses more than terrorism and in fact uses a concept of terrorism that's actually different from the concept of terrorist activity found in the Criminal Code, which is quite perplexing.
The new CSIS measures are also tied to the entire mandate of CSIS, that is, the threat to the security of Canada. There are four paragraphs in terms of threats—