Mr. Chair, the NSIRA has been designated to review national security activities across the Government of Canada, including reviewing the full scope of information-sharing activities for national security purposes. The bill obligates institutions to provide copies of records to NSIRA for this express purpose.
Furthermore, under the Privacy Act, the Privacy Commissioner already has the authority to review personal information-sharing practices of government institutions and to request records of such practices. To provide an additional explicit authority to review these practices in SCISA is, I fear, redundant.