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Public Safety committee The legislation sets out that if a minister refuses, or if information is refused to the committee, there has to be an explanation given. Is that what you're referring to?
November 15th, 2016Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
Public Safety committee If I may, Commissioner...?
November 15th, 2016Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
Public Safety committee You're at a very granular level, a very deep level. We—
November 15th, 2016Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
Public Safety committee When we determine the activities that are to be reviewed and the priority of those activities, we're looking at risks to compliance and risk to privacy. For those that we go through, we receive the briefings from CSE, and where we identify activities, something like that may be p
November 15th, 2016Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
Information & Ethics committee Mr. Blaikie, you raised two elements. One is the sharing of information and how to review the sharing of information between government agencies. The other part is the ability of the expert review process to get in depth into the agencies, as the commissioner stated. However, the
December 8th, 2016Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
Information & Ethics committee It depends on the type of information. If it relates to information with a privacy interest and if it is not essential, as the commissioner referred to in his opening remarks, it would be destroyed. It's an automated process because of the extent of the technology employed by CSE
December 8th, 2016Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
Information & Ethics committee I would add that the signals intelligence agencies have an agreement not to target each other's nationals and to respect the privacy laws of each of the five members. That's amongst the signals intelligence agencies.
December 8th, 2016Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
Information & Ethics committee In that, there may be, for example, the issuance of a report that may have had a name wrong or a named Canadian, and the reports will be retracted and re-issued and an assessment made of whether or not any consequences would be expected from that. We're reviewing that on a regula
December 8th, 2016Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
Information & Ethics committee If I could just add to that, Commissioner and Mr. Kelly, we review on a regular basis a privacy incident file that CSE maintains.
December 8th, 2016Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee It's 14.
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee If I might respond, that would be up to the American inspectors general, our counterparts there. Our focus is CSE's activities and the information that CSE shares with its counterpart, the National Security Agency in the United States. The commissioner's office has conducted an i
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee First of all—
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee First of all, it's not our organization, so the commissioner's office is the watchdog over the Communications Security Establishment.
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee We have the same—
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee Right. We have the same concerns. The commissioner has the same concerns as you're expressing. With recent changes in the United States, for example, the commissioner met with the chief of CSE last month. Is that right, Commissioner?
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith