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Information & Ethics committee Threshold is absolutely key. You're right to ask and to think about that. If the threshold's too low, there are, obviously, negative privacy impacts. If it's too high, the benefits to national security and the viability of the act are threatened. In my remarks I just tried to ta
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
John Davies
Information & Ethics committee Also, the case you're talking about was about sharing with another government—
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
John Davies
Information & Ethics committee SCISA is about within the government.
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
John Davies
Information & Ethics committee Thank you for the invitation to be here today to discuss the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act, or what we call SCISA. In addition to being a potential recipient of information disclosed under SCISA, Public Safety helps facilitate the use of the act by departments and ag
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
John Davies
Public Safety committee John Davies, director general, national security policy, Public Safety.
November 1st, 2016Committee meeting
John Davies
Public Safety committee Maybe I would add it's also to live up to our international obligations. Canada has signed on to a number of United Nations Security Council resolutions on controlling travel in regard to foreign fighters and terrorist travel, and obviously to other international agreements not t
May 26th, 2015Committee meeting
John Davies
Public Safety committee For the Minister of Public Safety, the portfolios of the RCMP, CSIS, and even CBSA are all very relevant to dealing with the issue of high-risk terrorist travellers. It's their information that probably 99% or 100% of the time will back or underpin passport decisions linked to na
May 26th, 2015Committee meeting
John Davies
Public Safety committee Typically, the national security agencies—the Canadian Security Intelligence Service or the RCMP—will put forward an individual they believe has met the threshold for cancellation of “reasonable grounds to suspect” that the person is a threat to national security or is suspected
May 26th, 2015Committee meeting
John Davies
Public Safety committee That could be the case.
May 26th, 2015Committee meeting
John Davies
Public Safety committee It's best to look at the provisions here and the changes in the Canadian passport order and the changes in the budget implementation act as another option. It's in addition to Bill S-7, in addition to Bill C-51, and it gives security agencies another option for considering the be
May 26th, 2015Committee meeting
John Davies
Public Safety committee There could be a case in which an individual has had their passport revoked, for example, and it's very clear that they need to travel, say, to a family funeral or something like that. There would be a discussion and confirmation that this was the case and about where the individ
May 26th, 2015Committee meeting
John Davies
May 26th, 2015Committee meeting
John Davies
Public Safety committee By reconsideration decision you mean the.... Once the person is notified, they have 30 days to apply for reconsideration. There's a reconsideration process. There's no actual timeline on how that will work because there will be a lot of back and forth with the applicant. After th
May 26th, 2015Committee meeting
John Davies
Public Safety committee There is no cost involved with implementing this.
May 26th, 2015Committee meeting
John Davies
Public Safety committee There's a cost with implementing the proposals. The Department of Public Safety will absorb those costs in implementing the proposals. There's no new funding associated with this proposal.
May 26th, 2015Committee meeting
John Davies