Especially when you have a committee that's going to be working in secret, it would be helpful to know what the committee is doing and what are the boundaries of what the committee is expected to be looking at.
With respect to our recommendation of which definition to use, we made submissions at the time of the passage of Bill C-51 about why the definition in the information sharing act was problematic, in the sense that it's extremely broad. It is not helpful in that respect, because that leads to an overreach and then a dilution of the resources you have with respect to looking at the relevant information. If you have a mandate that's extremely broad or amorphous, the committee may not have the focus, or there won't be the confidence that the committee is focused on the issues that actually matter.
The flip side is that if you have a definition that's too narrow, it may be siloed or not able to look at other issues. This is the problem that arises with respect to.... If the information sharing act is going to continue with its very broad definition, then it makes sense to have a committee that has a similarly broad mandate. Our ideal scenario, or what our suggestion would be, is to restrict the definition in the information sharing act to an appropriate scope that would then reflect that of the committee as to what actually are concerns around national security.