Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister. The Communications Security Establishment concluded co-operation agreements to exchange information with intelligence services in seven foreign countries. The establishment conducted electronic surveillance of two ministers in Mrs. Thatcher's British government, at the request of Mrs. Thatcher herself.
Can the Deputy Prime Minister confirm that the directives supposedly given last weekend by the Prime Minister also include forbidding the Communications Security Establishment to have others carry out its dirty work of electronically spying on Canadian citizens?