Let me respond in two ways. First of all, in respect of best practices relating to the sharing of information with foreign agencies such as the CIA and the FBI, I'd ask you to look at the Arar report. In 2006, Mr. Justice O'Connor made a number of recommendations in respect of the sharing of information, sharing of information with friendly nations such as the Americans or nations with poor human rights records such as Syria, Egypt, and so on. He talked about a number of restrictions that you should put on the sharing of information. There are two parts to the Arar report. If you look at volume I, it deals with a number of recommendations relating to the sharing of information.
Secondly, in respect of CSIS's powers and whether they need new powers, whether they need new powers they clearly don't need the powers that Bill C-51 gives them. Bill C-51 is unique in the history of this country, and indeed, in the history of any legal system similar to ours, in the sense that it attempts to empower a judge to authorize the violation of the Charter of Rights. That's what it does, and it's clearly unconstitutional. It gives CSIS that power. Certainly, CSIS doesn't need that power.
Whether it needs any new powers that are constitutional, I agree that what should happen is that we should be satisfied that the previous regime is inadequate. Did CSIS have adequate powers before Bill C-51? If it didn't, then those powers should be given to it under Bill C-51, but certainly not along the strain that Bill C-51 presently does, because as I said, it's just an unbelievable power that any constitutional lawyer will tell you is unconstitutional on its face.