First, I'd like to thank you for your comments about my French. I really appreciate that, but if I may, I'll answer your question in English. I spent many years in British Columbia, and my French is a bit rusty.
I'm going to try to answer your excellent question in English.
Madam Justice Deschamps is somebody who succeeded me and is doing an excellent job at NSIRA. I am aware of the budget cuts, and I share your deep concern about them.
On the issue of the role for NSIRA, however, I point out that it is a body that does after-the-fact reviews. It has no current mandate, as contemplated in Bill C-22, for an oversight role. However, the intelligence commissioner has that role of reviewing ministerial orders. The commissioner already has an oversight role.
I don't think NSIRA, in my judgment, is set up for that kind of role. What I do think would be helpful is if NSICOP and NSIRA were asked to review later—not on a case-by-case basis, as I think you're contemplating, but overall—how the system is working. I think that would be very valuable.