Madam Speaker, I will not be long and the relevance will become quite evident.
Following our examination of the documents provided to the committee and our meetings with DND CAF officials, the committee formed an opinion that DND intelligence activities conducted as part of overseas operations may not be in compliance with the Privacy Act. The committee referred this matter to the Attorney General pursuant to its obligation under section 31.1 of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Act, which requires it to make such referral when, in its opinion, an activity may not be in compliance with the law.
The review built on the committee's 2018 recommendation that the government give serious consideration to providing explicit legislative authority to the conduct of defence intelligence activities and went further in recommending that the Minister of National Defence introduce legislation governing defence intelligence activities.
In 2020, members of the committee, like all Canadians, were faced with the unprecedented situation of the pandemic. As such, the committee decided to provide the Prime Minister the only consolidated overview of threats to Canada's national security.
The committee found that the threats posed by organized crime and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction did not fundamentally—