Great, thank you.
Minister, the case before us today is not an isolated one. There have been others. In the case of Mr. Delisle, the Royal Canadian Navy officer who sold intelligence to Russia for several years and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, it was discovered during the analysis that national defence had failed to review his security clearance. They hadn't updated their data. We know that because the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency conducted an investigation and found that national defence had been negligent.
I understand that Treasury Board makes policies and directives and that it is up to each department to follow and apply them. However, you are the boss in charge of national security. How do you ensure that national defence and all departments are doing their job and conducting their reviews, particularly for people with secret or top secret security clearance?
I get the feeling that everyone is doing their own thing in every department, but there is no proper oversight. In any event, there is a very specific case, that of Mr. Delisle, where national defence failed to conduct security clearance reviews.
Would it be a good idea for you to be the big boss in your process and use dashboards to ensure that all departments are doing their job?
Do you, as minister, have the information, or do you trust the departments to do their jobs?