Public Safety committee  There is another one in Mr. Justice O'Connor's report where he goes through all seven of our recommendations on our Arar study. One said that “CSIS examined its agreements and policies with the RCMP to determine whether they provide the necessary protection against third-party di

Public Safety committee  I think it's even more complicated in that clearly CSIS was aware that they had shared a great deal of information with the RCMP with respect to a project that became part of the foundation of their information on Project A-O Canada. What they didn't know was what had been adde

Public Safety committee  The answer is no, we don't operate that way. We don't do surprise visits. I can tell you that in the course of doing some investigations, there are always cross-references. In other words, it's not just in one place. When information is exchanged or communications are exchanged,

Public Safety committee  Sorry, may I just ask, in what circumstance was there no written report?

Public Safety committee  Right, that's true.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  They weren't asked; that's the point we're making.

Public Safety committee  The proper procedure would be that if information, which had been garnered by CSIS, was shared with a number of different agencies, domestic or international, in order for them to share that information with a third party, they would have to seek CSIS approval. We're saying that

Public Safety committee  That's for somebody else releasing CSIS's information. That's what the protocol we're talking about is. And we're saying that protocol wasn't followed, not by CSIS, but by—

Public Safety committee  Yes, but they have a memorandum of understanding for the free exchange of information. They followed the memorandum and passed the information on. Then approval wasn't sought for that to be passed on to a third party.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I understand that.

Public Safety committee  Twenty.

Public Safety committee  Full-time, yes.

Public Safety committee  Only the members of the committee are part-time. The staff are all full-time.

Public Safety committee  It depends on the nature of the inquiry or the review. There are times when thousands of pages of documents are being poured over and many, many electronic communications and all sorts of other information is being pursued. If the question is, are we ever denied access, the ans