Thank you. This is an issue that I'm very passionate about. It's a great question.
One of the first examples out there is the worldwide threat assessment that's put out every year by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. We used to call it the Clapper report. It will now be called Coats report.
What I would say is that every year they put out a 15- to 20-page threat assessment that lists what the priority threats are to Americans. It's a very useful report because it's indicative of where the security services are putting their resources and what the major concerns are. It also shows the shift over time. If you look at the reports over time, you can see that they've gone from putting al Qaeda—particularly al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula—as the number one threat to now putting cyber as the number one threat.
It's interesting that we've seen that shift in the American national security landscape, and I think Canadians should know as well. Right now, the only way we really have of knowing these things is through the threat environment section in CSIS's annual report, but that's no longer an annual report. It now comes out every three years. Also, now it's not even really a report anymore. The last report was a YouTube video of the director sitting in front of a camera, and I don't think this is sufficient to explain what the national security threats are to Canadians.
First of all, I don't understand why that report is no longer an annual one. It absolutely should be an annual report. When I testified on Bill C-22, I said we needed to make sure that there are annual reports discussing what these threats are, along the lines of the worldwide threat assessment. I think that would be one area.
The other area that we have is the public report on the terrorist threat, which is again supposed to come out every year. I don't believe this year's report has come out yet; I'm not entirely sure why. That is the only inter-agency report we have on any threat to Canada, not just terrorism, and it's in just one area. We don't talk a lot about espionage and we don't talk a lot about cyber, and these are things Canadians need to know.