Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Commissioner Noël, I'd like to direct my first questions to you.
The first part of Bill C-70 makes some pretty consequential amendments to the CSIS Act, notably massive upgrades to the CSIS dataset regime. We've been describing it as bringing an analog law up to speed so that it fits in a digital age. However, I've read the NSIRA report on CSIS's use of the dataset regime and it's littered with comments like this: “CSIS's current application of the dataset regime is inconsistent with the statutory framework”, “CSIS did not comply with the dataset provisions in the CSIS Act”, non-compliant information was held and “CSIS has failed to adequately operationalize the dataset regime.” That's a pretty scathing report. Now I'm being asked as a legislator to fix the dataset regime and give CSIS more powers, but that's in the context of them failing to act by their current statutory obligations.
From your point of view as the commissioner, what can you tell me, a legislator, that would put my mind at ease so that a few years down the road from now, I'm not going to read another NSIRA report that shows CSIS has blown past the statutory limitations I'm being asked to give them here and now?