We also believe that would improve SCISA. In our brief, we give an outline for why we were opposed to SCISA and still have grave concerns about SCISA. We believe there needs to be more done, as the Privacy Commissioner brought up in his testimony, regarding threshold for disclosure and receipt of information.
Fundamentally, as others have pointed out, it's a complex law. Even some of the security officials have said they're worried it could bring in red tape. We believe the goal of the law, of the act, is to ensure that there's a legal framework for private information being shared and used for national security purposes.
We urge that the committee and the government reconsider having an act like SCISA that changes the definition of “threat to national security” and is very complex and, instead, bring in something much simpler that would simply set out the threshold for when information can be shared for national security purposes. That would answer a lot of the questions that have been raised. Changing SCISA to SCIDA, and how it's framed right now won't go far enough.