The whole issue around publicly available information, I understand, has been considered around this table. I'll just try to perhaps add a couple of pieces to it.
For us, mandate is critical. Mandate matters, and it matters throughout the entire piece of legislation that is in front of you, and that includes publicly available information. We can use publicly available information only if it is related to our mandate, our foreign signals intelligence mandate or our cybersecurity mandate. We do not have within our legislation, currently or proposed, any mandate to focus our activities on Canadians, to have an investigative capability, to create dossiers on Canadians. That is not within our current or proposed legislation.
I would start with the fact that mandate matters.
The second piece I would relate is that, as I think has been raised before here, publicly available information—and it's defined in our act—would not comprise information that has been hacked or stolen. This is information that would be publicly available to any Canadians.
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