Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It might be helpful if we read portion (a) together with portion (b)(3).
In portion (a), two things have to happen. The activity is ongoing. It has to be ongoing, whether it's an operation or not, and the appropriate minister has to determine that it is injurious to national security, so that's a tight lens. In (b)(3), the release of that tight lens is quick because, in that case, it says “or” the review is no longer injurious “or” it has discontinued. I think we can take comfort in the fact that the minister has to let go of the objection quicker than she would be forced to accept the restriction.
It is quite deliberate that the first one says “and” and in the second section we have “or”, which means the committee would be free to study as long as either of the two limits are met, but both of them have to be met in part (a) for the information to be excluded.