Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
This committee has been told several times today that when actionable intelligence became available, all the Canadian security agencies took action. We can see from the timeline that it was in June 2024 when CSIS became aware of the potential national security threat posed by the subject, who is an Egyptian national.
There have been a number of questions today about how we gather intelligence, how it's acted upon and how it's shared, and I know specifics can't be shared. When it comes to an organization like ISIS, whose main theatre of operations is in parts of the Middle East, which have for at least a decade or more suffered through war and all kinds of strife, I'm wondering if CSIS could just inform the committee and maybe Canadians, generally, what the challenges are in gathering intelligence in areas like that.
What are the kinds of challenges, whether it's from human-sourced intelligence or open source intelligence, when you are operating in a theatre that has experienced war for so long and that may have crumbling infrastructure and may have little to no government records? Can you talk a little about the challenges of what it's like to operate in that kind of an environment?