Public Safety committee  I'll answer the question. What we've indicated in the report is that we did not have access to the actual cabinet documents, since it's a limit in our legislation. What we saw were all the discussions, the briefing materials and the minutes of meetings leading up to that. I thin

Public Safety committee  Yes. What we notice most is the difference between agencies that are already subject to examination and that are used to providing classified information—such as the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS, the Communications Security Establishment, CSE, and the Royal Canad

Public Safety committee  We asked the government the same question when we learned that this information was going to be redacted.

Public Safety committee  The government told us that this was classified data and that it did not want to disclose these details.

Public Safety committee  The summary is written by the staff of our secretariat. In this case, after reviewing the sentences or sentence sections and the paragraphs that had been redacted, we decided to reformulate sentences to make them complete and therefore produce a complete summary.

Public Safety committee  We aren't aware of the resources and budget available to the new committee. I know that this budget will be much larger than the one allocated to my secretariat because the mandate of the new committee is much broader, but we are not aware of the precise figures. That being said,

Public Safety committee  Are you referring to the 2017 or the 2018 report?

Public Safety committee  We were given a copy of the final report, I think, a day or two in advance of its publication, as a courtesy.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  I don't have the details of the legislation in front of me, but I remember something of the discussion at committee. I was struck by the fact that Australia had enacted explicit legislation on foreign interference, whereas here in Canada, foreign interference is listed as a threa

Public Safety committee  One of the reasons we didn't look at the upcoming election in terms of foreign interference is that the government—they informed us—was doing so much work in terms of assessing the threat and then taking action to prevent the threat of foreign interference.

Public Safety committee  She's the inspector general.

Public Safety committee  It's the intelligence priorities.

Public Safety committee  They're able to collect intelligence if they have a legally mandated authority to deploy forces on a mission, whether it's in Canada in support of the RCMP or CSE for example, or on a mission abroad. They can collect in support of a mission wherever it is.

Public Safety committee  As I think I mentioned earlier, it's a question of the departments, particularly those that are not subject to regular review, getting used to providing information, the relevant information, to the committee. In some cases, it's perhaps about the secretariat needing to be more