I'm not intimately familiar with how the U.K. operationalizes the threat intelligence; however, at the highest level, I do understand that amongst the Five Eyes nations, Canada is an outlier in terms of the lack of authorities our domestic security agency has to share threat intelligence with the business community.
We just spent a week in the United Kingdom last month, and we met with the U.K.'s domestic security agency, MI5. They have a special body that is designed purely for the purpose of collaboration with the private sector. They told us quite specifically that they have the authorities that CSIS is now seeking through clause 34. They tell us that those authorities are working effectively and have allowed them to build very robust partnerships, and this has been starting to build increased resiliency across the economy.
We've also had an opportunity to recently travel to Washington, D.C., to meet with the office of the private sector of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They have similar authorities.
The model we looked at in the United States that has worked quite effectively is something called the Domestic Security Alliance Council, which is a joint partnership between 700 strategically important U.S. companies, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. Through two-way exchanges of information between the United States government and U.S. corporations, they're able to advance the United States' mission of protecting that country's national and economic security while at the same time helping U.S. corporations better protect their employees, their customers and the communities in which they operate.
By participating in this organization, both the public and private sectors gain access to senior leaders within those two sectors. The private sector gains tailored access to threat intelligence specific to their sector, and then the public and private sectors also gain access to a very large and robust network of senior security executives, who can work together jointly to solve security issues and to share best practices.
We believe that Canada is really well positioned, CSIS in particular, the Department of Public Safety and the business community, to establish a body similar to DSAC to operationalize the authorities contained within clause 34.
If we're looking for examples to operationalize what's contemplated in the legislation, the FBI and the DHS's Domestic Security Alliance Council would be a model we should look for.