In some ways I think what we're going to learn from these reports is how these powers are being used, how often they're being used, and whether our security services are having difficulty complying with the law. What they're not going to necessarily reveal is what the threats are that these powers are being used against.
People are worried about foreign fighters. We've seen that in the last month's coverage of the foreign fighter issue and I can understand why Canadians are concerned. However, at the end of the day, if we communicated these threats better, in a more reasonable manner, and provided a separate threat assessment or a more robust threat assessment by the national security community, I think that would go some way to help.
Where the transparency is going to be valuable, for someone such as me who is trying to know, is where you can see, for example, whether these powers are being used more or being used less, why they are being used more, whether there an increasing threat, and so on.