Mr. Speaker, I also sincerely hope that we will be able to debate this at length in committee.
The government claims that the existing civilian oversight of secret services is sufficient. However, the spokesperson for the Security Intelligence Review Committee contradicted the minister yesterday when she said that the committee was just a limited, after-the-fact review body.
It seems quite logical to me. If the government wants to give more powers to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, we need better oversight of its activities
Why is the government refusing to adopt this common-sense approach?