Public Safety committee  Hi there. Just to be clear, right now we share information with other departments and agencies under our existing authorities. When we do that, we do it through an end-product report, an intelligence report. That will continue the way it is now. There are privacy measures in pla

Public Safety committee  I'll just to that add, as well. Again, we cannot direct our activities at Canadians. We direct them at foreign targets. If a foreign target talks about a Canadian, or, say, calls somebody in Canada and we pick that up, we have to destroy that information under current legislati

Public Safety committee  Right now in the bill, the minister, in the ministerial authorization space, will lay out the privacy measures specific in that authorization on the use, retention, and disposition of that information, and we have to follow that. Again, some of those elements are listed on our we

Public Safety committee  We're required to, yes. There's a test right now that if it's not essential to international affairs, security, and defence, then that information has to be destroyed, and then we're reviewed for that.

Public Safety committee  How the ministerial authorizations and the capture are distinct from publicly available information is that under the ministerial authorizations, for any information that we acquire where there's a reasonable expectation of privacy or we might interfere with it, that information

Public Safety committee  I guess the only thing I would say is that there are privacy protections that have to be laid out in the ministerial authorization. As well, the minister will designate under the proposed CSE Act who can receive that information. That is a new element in that ministerial designat

Public Safety committee  We are subject to the charter, and not all the elements of the charter are here. All legislation and activities are subject to the charter. As to where we interfere with the reasonable expectation of privacy, right now we operate under the understanding that any kind of informati

Public Safety committee  I would add that the capability exists with CSE now. One of the reasons National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces have been added to our assistance mandate is that should they engage in cyber operations in support of government-approved military operations, they could levera

Public Safety committee  There are a few things. One is to make clear that this element is actually making explicit something that occurs now with respect to CSE. We use infrastructure information, which, as the legislation states, can be linked to an identifiable Canadian. We do that to understand the

Public Safety committee  May I just add to that? I'm sorry, sir, but I didn't completely answer your last question.

Public Safety committee  Publicly available information is included in the definitions in part 3, so there is a specific definition.

Public Safety committee  You don't have the act in front of you, so I'll read it to you: publicly available information means information that has been published or broadcast for public consumption, is accessible to the public on the global information infrastructure or otherwise or is available to th

Public Safety committee  I would just say that, where there is that reasonable expectation of privacy, any information that we use... If there's any element of, say, information notwithstanding the publicly available information definition and those elements, if there is anything that hits that trigger o

Public Safety committee  No. I think it's been covered. I guess the only thing that I would clarify is that our legislation uses the terms “active” and “defensive”. The term “offensive” or what might constitute something that's more in the military space would be something under the authorities and remit

Public Safety committee  Yes. We are a stand-alone agency, under the portfolio of the Minister of National Defence, and that is within the bill itself, as I mentioned.