Thanks, Mr. Chair.
This amendment is directly related to the letter from the Privacy Commissioner. He wrote:
Equally problematic is that SCISA would authorize information sharing if “relevant” to the jurisdiction of the recipient institution, rather than “necessary” to its mandate or “proportional” to the national security objective to be achieved.
I've heard the comments to a similar amendment from Justice officials, and they say this would create a difficulty for the agencies, but I think that the words of our Privacy Commissioner should be taken very seriously here. The mandate of protecting privacy is a significant one, and the advice of the Privacy Commissioner is reflected in my amendment PV-4, that we would be able to protect privacy by changing “relevant” to “necessary”.