Thank you for the question. It's the traditional answer, but this time I mean it.
I didn't say it in my initial remarks, but one part of this quasi-omnibus bill that I think is overly complex is the one dealing with information sharing within the federal government. I would argue that there should be a positive obligation on any institution of the federal government to share with a listed number of institutions any information or concerns they might have about national security.
The way the bill is drafted now, you need to have worked in the Department of Justice for 15 years to understand the standards and whether there's a positive obligation or not. I think this is better than was the case when I was at CSIS, where there was no legal protection at all, but I don't think it makes clear to all and sundry that the overarching objective here is to share information relating to national security to avoid a crisis.
If you read that part of the bill, I don't think that comes through. There are so many conditions and thresholds and whatnot that I don't think it meets the standard, so if there is one part of the bill that I would argue you should strive to clarify and make very much clearer, that is the part. It would have made me more relaxed, when I was at CSIS, about the thing that you mentioned, but I would still worry that somebody in HRSDC or Heritage Canada who might have tripped over information would still not feel comfortable calling up and saying, “We have an issue.”