The other three committees are subject matter experts for the national security operations of the agency they supervise. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of course is an expert on privacy as it relates to all government departments, including national security agencies, so there's a complementarity to the mandates of SIRC, and so on, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. To have a fully effective review I think requires a number of layers: a parliamentary review, an oversight review by experts, and experts who bring significant added value to the exercise, and we think we add value, too, in privacy knowledge.
On November 17th, 2016. See this statement in context.