moved for leave to introduce Bill C-436, an act to amend the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act (recommendations of the Review Committee).
Mr. Speaker, this is a very specific bill to amend section 52 of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act. It would provide that the recommendations of the Security Intelligence Review Committee are to be implemented unless overruled by the minister concerned.
In the event that the minister were to overrule, the minister would be required to report to parliament the reasons for overruling the decision of the committee. If the reasons were secret, the minister would be required to report to parliament why they are deemed to be secret.
The principle of the bill has been recommended to successive governments by the Security Intelligence Review Committee. Successive governments keep ignoring that recommendation so I keep bringing the bill forward.
(Motion deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)