There are agencies that do it better and agencies that could benefit from some improvement. I think we have a very careful selection process and professional development process, for instance, among the Canadian Armed Forces, and within the Communications Security Establishment to a large degree, also within CSIS. However, on the law enforcement side, we also know that there is considerable opportunity for improvement on capabilities, capacities, and skill sets. For instance, while I respect the suggestions that CSIS should stick to it's knitting and, as far as possible, basically have other agencies deal with particular issues, I would submit to you that, yes, in the best of all worlds, we would want to have the RCMP do things, like disruption and whatnot. However, my submission to you is that the RCMP is struggling on so many fronts already that I think we also need to figure out where the relative advantage of different organizations lies and allow them to bring it up to speed.
On December 7th, 2017. See this statement in context.