National Defence committee  Yes, for activities that risk that incidental interception of a communication, which is where you're talking about the actual content.... Metadata doesn't include the content of the conversation.

National Defence committee  No I think, Minister, you've covered it very well.

National Defence committee  I think one of the roles that CSE plays...and we're very closely integrated with the Canadian Armed Forces and we have people inside each other's organizations in cyberspace. The minister indicated we share cyber-threat information very closely amongst the Five Eyes allies and pr

National Defence committee  In terms of government networks and systems we will look at attacks coming into the government networks. We work with Shared Services Canada then who are providing the basic computer network and services for Canada. We will provide notices and alerts to Shared Services Canada. We

National Defence committee  That's correct. Our focus, as required under the act, is foreign intelligence and foreign targets to support the intelligence priorities of the government. We're not listening to Canadian conversations with your family and so on. We collect, as I mentioned, information off the In

National Defence committee  That's correct.

National Defence committee  Yes, our role is to help protect Canada from a variety of foreign-based threats. That could include terrorist organizations that are plotting attacks on our allies or Canadian interests overseas, support to the Canadian military in theatre of operations. Regarding your last poin

National Defence committee  We collect as per the National Defence Act.

National Defence committee  —data from the global information infrastructure, which is defined in the act, which includes global communication networks. As I said, data and communications will traverse the globe, depending on where the most efficient, cost-effective...and capacity is. Our Canadian data and

National Defence committee  Yes, Canadian and foreign, the metadata, which is not the content, will be intermingled together as it traverses global communication networks.

National Defence committee  Our use of metadata, we use it based on the directions from the minister for three things. One is to understand global communication networks, so we use it to analyze networks so that when we're searching for a foreign target, it helps us to find where our best chance of succes

National Defence committee  No. If I could elaborate a little bit.... When you look at the global information infrastructure—the Internet—if I'm sending an email from myself to the chair, for example, that email may get broken up into different pieces, and it may travel different communication routes arou

National Defence committee  We're authorized to collect—

National Defence committee  No, I can confirm the collection of.... We used a historical snapshot of metadata. There was no collection done from the airport. It was collected—

National Defence committee  Yes. The metadata we do collect, we collect from the global information infrastructure.