Thank you, Mr. Harris, for the question.
I think committee members would consider that the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians is a proxy group for the whole of Parliament, both the House of Commons and the Senate. They have been cleared to a sufficiently high level to be able to hear the classified information, for the first time in Canadian history, and to work on behalf of all parliamentarians to hear the information, deliberate in a completely non-partisan setting and then deliver up a report, which is classified, to the Prime Minister. From there, it goes through the normal Canada Evidence Act process of redaction, and then it's ultimately tabled.
We felt, as a committee, it would be helpful for Canadians—parliamentarians and Canadians writ large—to provide a single source of authoritative information on the threats to our national security, hence the update from the 2018 first foray into producing that assessment.