Public Safety committee  We'll do it in two parts here. I'll set the scene, and then Ms. McNorton is going to explain the specific recommendations we have. I have copies of these. I have submitted them to the committee for translation, but I'm happy to circulate the documents.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, I think we need to ask ourselves why we are here. I think one of the challenges we've had is that we hear a lot of tactics, but we don't hear a lot about what the strategy is and what the ultimate rationale is behind this. The rationale is that, as Canadians, we've lon

Public Safety committee  I think one of the strengths of parliamentarians is that they are generalists and that they have to deal with wide ranges of legislation. My concern is that there is a lot disinformation and misinformation in this particular realm and it can be very difficult to understand, becau

Public Safety committee  There are always trade-offs, but I think the expertise is critical for the committee to ask the right questions and to know what information to ask for from the community. I would also submit that we propose people, for instance, who are done with their careers, who have retire

Public Safety committee  We also want to consider that every time one of these committees makes a request to the agencies, given there's no new money to the agencies to support all these new requests, this is effectively a cut in the budgets to the agencies themselves. We want to make sure that committee

Public Safety committee  There are agencies that do it better and agencies that could benefit from some improvement. I think we have a very careful selection process and professional development process, for instance, among the Canadian Armed Forces, and within the Communications Security Establishment t

Public Safety committee  The challenge is always, as my colleagues also pointed out, in reassuring Canadians that the activity in which the service engages is compliant with the Constitution and the rule of law. While I am personally satisfied that the service engages with the utmost professionalism when

Public Safety committee  The government's proposed establishment of an act for CSE itself is a huge improvement and innovation over the current situation, where it is embedded in the National Defence Act. I would say that on cybersecurity in this country, by and large not only do we have our head in the

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I think there is a need for demystification, because of course our adversaries play actively in this environment on a permanent basis. The cyber-threat is the single greatest threat to our national security, to our democracy, our social harmony, and our prosperity today. I think

Public Safety committee  The challenge in that space is that you ultimately have to be preventative, and different countries have different mechanisms. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission has fantastic mechanisms that work very well in this particular sphere. I'm concerned about the reduction

Public Safety committee  There is a cost to every layer of review and oversight that we impose on agencies. Without additional funding, in a democracy we need to weigh the trade-offs we engage in, but as we mentioned, there are potentially quite positive outcomes, especially in efficacy and innovation fo

Finance committee  Hello. Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to appear before the committee. I will make my remarks in English, but you may ask questions in either official language. I first want to define the problem space, which is the under-utilization of money

Finance committee  That is an excellent question. This is a problem that exists throughout the world so we're not starting [Inaudible--Editor] comparatively in the number of jurisdictions. Everybody, every financial intelligence unit, struggles with the problem that the money laundering and terro

Finance committee  —the banks are not the major part of the problem here. Everybody fingers the banks, but as I point out in my brief, the problem is that 90% of this illicit money never flows through banks. The banks already do a pretty good job, not just because of legislation, but primarily beca