Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I must admit that I haven't seen all of the comments you're referring to. I have seen press references to them.

Public Safety committee  I have not read them in detail, no.

Public Safety committee  I have not read them in detail. I've seen summaries.

Public Safety committee  Would you mind then telling me what your question is?

Public Safety committee  What I think is important to stress is that we have done several reviews along the way on various different activities of the service with respect to many of these different individuals and their processes. I have heard, as no doubt you have heard from many senior officials in th

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and I'll begin by thanking you for inviting me to appear today. I'm delighted to be here as chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee, along with Susan Pollak, our executive director. We have a number of our senior staff with us as observ

Public Safety committee  Only just that, as I indicated earlier, it was three years ago the last time our committee was asked to come before the parliamentary committee. We appreciate your courtesy, and we appreciate all of the information and the knowledge you are putting into this process. It's very ev

Public Safety committee  It's clear that one of the advantages that some of our counterparts have is that they aren't limited to dealing with just one of the elements of the whole family of security and intelligence gathering. In other words, in Norway and the U.K., among two, the oversight bodies would

Public Safety committee  I think it is a matter that should be examined in its totality to see whether or not it is feasible and desirable to give that kind of direct access to all of the secrets of state, so to speak, in the whole security and intelligence field to a parliamentary body. I don't know of

Public Safety committee  Right.

Public Safety committee  They should, but it didn't happen.

Public Safety committee  Yes. In fact that was one of the outcomes of our study with respect to agencies from countries with questionable human rights records. I might say as well that the RCMP-CSIS memorandum of understanding was tightened up and expanded to cover some of the concerns in September.

Public Safety committee  Which page?

Public Safety committee  At the top of page 74, “CSIS amend its policy governing the disclosure of information to foreign agencies, to include consideration of the human rights record of the country and possible abuses”.