Certainly. I think it's the clear intention in the mandate provided to the committee of parliamentarians that CBSA, along with other security and intelligence departments and agencies, would fall under its purview. In fact, if the committee is tempted to follow my suggestion of actually listing as part of the mandate the core agencies that will be the primary preoccupation of the committee, CBSA would be there and named alongside CSIS, the Communications Security Establishment, the RCMP, and the Department of National Defence. I think that's the core set of security and intelligence agencies that will be the subject for study by the committee.
Certainly, CBSA will find itself under the scrutiny of the parliamentary body. It will be up to the government to decide, I suppose post-Bill C-22, what it's actually going to do—this comes back to your question to Mr. Atkey—about the existing mechanisms for independent review. Is it going to roll them all together to make the system more efficient rather than have them siloed and independent as they are currently?
If I may add to that, on the other question that you asked Mr. Atkey, I certainly agree with him that you are going to continue to need another layer of review, another and more detailed layer that can, in particular, dig into questions of propriety, that is, lawfulness and following the directions of ministers. The committee of parliamentarians, on the other hand, I think is going to take that higher level strategic look at the activities of the security intelligence community, with a particular focus on just how well they are performing their functions, and are they serving the national security as they are meant to do?