Public Safety committee  First of all, let me thank the committee for inviting me to appear this afternoon. Mr. Holland, I wanted to complement Mr. Elcock's earlier answer by saying that G-20 summits, by definition, have all been held in urban environments because of the number of participants and becau

Public Accounts committee  May I use my privilege of coordination to thank you all on behalf of the community? I hope that we have been able to answer most of your questions, and we thank you for your interest.

Public Accounts committee  My office is located, as you know, in the Privy Council Office. I have mentioned my role of coordination from a security and intelligence point of view. If you want to call it a secretariat, essentially what I do is provide this coordinating role, if I may borrow the analogy, at

Public Accounts committee  I was candid in saying that the world presents a great number of challenges, but I hope I was also clear that I believe we have made huge progress in being more prepared if we have to face security incidents. I firmly believe that we are. We are able to gather a lot of informati

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. I believe we are actually doing a very good job on both counts. We do receive a lot of information from varied sources. By the way, today we have to look at the integration of information that is also readily available in open sources. There is a view that the only in

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for that. I think I will tackle the first question. Look, what I would say is that the issues with respect to security and intelligence are by their very nature complex. It does perhaps sound like a simple thing to say, but it is just a reality. My experience is that w

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Saxton, that's a very big question. I would have to begin by acknowledging that we are living in a very complex world from a security environment point of view. You all saw yesterday what happened in North Korea, so the complexity of the challenges we are facing has grown, if

Public Accounts committee  Certainly. First of all, I should refer to the yearly process of determining priorities for the intelligence community. As departments and agencies, we do take a full scan of security and intelligence challenges. We distill those, and on the basis of that analysis we are able on

Public Accounts committee  Once again, I cannot answer that question. We could ask the agency to provide you with a written answer, Ms. Faille.

Public Accounts committee  I can't share that information with you and no, I have not had the opportunity to travel to Afghanistan as of yet, Ms. Faille. Mr. Ranger, are you aware of what is happening with airports?

Public Accounts committee  It's the CSE, the Communications Security Establishment, under the Department of National Defence.

Public Accounts committee  There's no company, it is a government agency.

Public Accounts committee  Not to my knowledge, Madam.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we use private companies for the purposes of telecommunication.

Public Accounts committee  Unfortunately, I am not in a position to answer that question either, Ms. Faille.