The process within the committee for sharing information is through the report, so there are mechanisms for providing.... It's one thing for members of the committee—for example, opposition members—to be privy to the information. That's a trust question. The second question is in terms of their being able to share the information outside the committee, and the mechanism for that is through the reports. There is no other mechanism for them. An individual member has no power to take information obtained within the committee and share it unilaterally outside the committee. There is a process within the committee.
We would imagine that there would be two processes that would limit that information. One is the need-to-know principle. In other words, the committee itself would not hear information that wasn't necessary, and that's an important principle that would be applied across the board. Even when Mr. Fadden was the head of CSIS, he would, presumably, get only information that he needed to know. Even the head of CSIS doesn't know the name of every informant, or every witness in protection, or whatever it may be, if they don't need to know those things.
