Public Safety committee  Thanks for the question. Mr. Chair, if you bear with me, I'll just quote something: If you can kill a disbelieving American or European—especially the spiteful and filthy French—or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever...waging war, including the citizens of t

Public Safety committee  I'd like to start by clarifying—

Public Safety committee  Just to clarify one thing—and I did mention this when I appeared in February in front of the Senate committee—when we're talking about 80 returnees, we're not talking about 80 people who fought in Iraq and Syria, and we're not necessarily talking about people who are directly inv

Public Safety committee  All of them could potentially be a threat, definitely.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, that's exactly what's happening. We do exchange information not just with Passport Canada and the RCMP, but there is that integration, coordination, and deconfliction, if not daily then at least weekly, on that very specific issue.

Public Safety committee  I was just going to mention that in terms of what is the threat today, I'm not going to talk about the scale or...but what I can say is that, compared to the late 1990s and 2000s before 9/11, the threat is different. It's more diffused. It develops a lot more rapidly. With the us

Public Safety committee  I think sensitizing people to the risks at all levels is crucial. What's that English expression? It's “whack-a-mole”, where you try to stop something from somewhere.... You can close a website, but two are going to appear the next morning, and quite often the servers are not in

Public Safety committee  Commissioner Paulson talked about, for example, weekly or biweekly meetings. That's just one way we're exchanging information. I was a director general in the Quebec region, in Montreal, and I know things haven't changed; every day several meetings are taking place between, for e

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, I'll comment on this question, but it won't fully answer the question. CSIS's role is to collect information, analyze it and advise the government, in particular Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Passport Canada. If new information was brought to our attention, w

Public Safety committee  Specifically on that issue, you may remember several months ago the serviceman in Britain who was stabbed to death on the street while he was wearing his uniform. The service obviously will look at that kind of incident—and not just the service but ITAC also. It's part of their j

Public Safety committee  I'll start with the last one in terms of charges, and will then turn to Commissioner Paulson. In terms of whether or not we know the number of Canadians who are overseas involved in threat-related activities, be it in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and the list goes on, the number we're qu

Public Safety committee  In both cases, the no-fly list and entry/exit information, in terms of piloting changes to the no-fly list, it is not the service that has the responsibility of driving those files. It would be Public Safety.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Minister. In terms of the first part of your question of why it's not in the act at the moment, if you go back 30 years, at the time it was not envisaged that the service would be as involved as it is today in administrative proceedings or criminal prosecutions.

Public Safety committee  It is true that the service is not an enforcement agency. We're not in the business of collecting evidence. But again, because of the evolution of threats, we're more and more indirectly—and sometimes directly—involved not in criminal investigations because we run parallel invest

Public Safety committee  It's actually a very accurate picture of what we're facing. I would add one more thing. It is true at the moment that a judge can afford protection case by case, but because of that “case by case”, because of that uncertainty, it is more difficult to recruit or get people to coo