We're indeed aware of the report from the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency. It's quite worrying.
We're definitely concerned. Time and again.... This is not the first time that CSIS has been found to be either engaging in unlawful activity or pushing the boundaries of what they're allowed to do. We saw this with Bill C-70, the foreign interference act. We saw this with the National Security Act, and now we're seeing it again with this act. Every time we hear this is happening, they're rewarded with new powers, and there's very little—at least no public—discussion of what the repercussions are for the individuals and for the service when they do....
It's frustrating to see that we only learn about this because of an access to information request, and that it's not the kind of information that NSIRA and others are able to share publicly so we can have these public debates. If there wasn't this access to information request, we would have never known of the 20 instances, approximately, within one year of CSIS engaging in unlawful activity.
