Public Safety committee  Ten weeks.

Public Safety committee  I can't really say. I'm sorry.

Public Safety committee  I can't be specific about what information we ask them for. The difficulty is that virtually everything we're asking is highly classified information, top secret material in many cases, so I can't give you a description of it.

Public Safety committee  Our staff typically go right into the CSIS operations, have access right into their database, their bibliographic reference system, which is the operational database of the entire CSIS operation.

Public Safety committee  Accompanied by somebody from CSIS?

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I believe it's clearly a question that should be asked to CSIS, but if I may, I'll just go back to you about the heads up, that you say everybody should have known about Syria and its reputation for torture. Well, clearly, people all over the world knew that, and the U.S. State

Public Safety committee  I think Canadians win. We have a job to do. It has to be a professional relationship, and he has a job to do and I'm sure he takes it very seriously. We have a job to do, and that's to hold them accountable for their responsibilities and mandate and adhering to it under the C

Public Safety committee  Essentially, that's what our submission to O'Connor said. We laid out about ten areas that we believed were really, really important--transparency, access to the information, the credibility and the trust of the review body, and all those things. We laid them out as what we belie

Public Safety committee  We hold them to their own standards across the act, obviously--the act, ministerial direction, and their own policies and practices--and if they don't meet those tests.... They have all of these different relationships, as we've just been talking about, memoranda of understandin

Public Safety committee  You're right, it hasn't happened. But I would imagine we would have to go to the minister and just lay the issue of difference on the table and report that we were unable to resolve a matter of importance between us, and there would have to be, obviously, some action taken.

Public Safety committee  Look, I'm sorry. I don't want to be difficult, but you've taken about five minutes to ask the question and then you're telling me to give a yes or no answer. Come on.

Public Safety committee  I don't think it's a matter of whether or not people made mistakes. We found no evidence that they were involved in his arrest or apprehension and deportation, that's for sure. We do know that, on the request of the Syrian intelligence officials, they did go to interview the Syri

Public Safety committee  Thank you.

Public Safety committee  I said we are in the process of examining the letter from Mr. Waldman, on behalf of Mr. Arar, and we will make our decision based on our examination of a whole variety of issues as soon as we can. We received that letter, as I recall, about ten days ago, and we've only just met a