Public Safety committee  No, I don't think so. To begin with, the specific responsibilities of the Inspector General that are enumerated in the statute, that is to say certify my annual report, have been transferred to the SIRC and a small number of FTEs have been transferred as well. The other thing t

Public Safety committee  I am accountable to the minister for the management of the service. Having said that, in the management of national security and intelligence, the national security world, the Prime Minister has appointed a national security adviser, who has a coordinating role. I wouldn't say I

Public Safety committee  I think there are two or three components to that question. As I indicated earlier, when I spoke to the national security adviser, it was to express a general concern that we were working on a couple of files. It was a heads-up. We give a heads-up to the centre daily on a whole

Public Safety committee  I think the endgame is very similar to the one we were talking about here today. There are a number of foreign powers, in this case the Russian Federation, which are very interested in acquiring influence on the development of policy in the United States. This can be done in any

Public Safety committee  Not before the U.S. justice department issued the announcement.

Public Safety committee  I think it's something we should be concerned about. It's happened over the years. The Canadian federal government and Canadian provinces have made it more and more difficult for such individuals to acquire Canadian identities, but it is still possible. I think one of the reason

Public Safety committee  It was selected by the corporation.

Public Safety committee  They were made aware that that was the schedule proposed by the CBC and that I was proposing to agree.

Public Safety committee  Given that the general idea of interviews had already been approved, I wasn't seeking approval. I was informing them in the event that they knew something they might want to tell me about.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  Again, it's very hard to generalize, but if we find over the years that there has been secret pressure, secret influence, secret meetings.... The activity of the foreign power has to be clandestine. It has to be secret. A diplomat operating out of a foreign embassy does not qual

Public Safety committee  CSIS has to do in secret our investigations, our inquiries, our trade craft, the information we share with foreign countries. These have to be done in secret. And I think over the years CSIS has demonstrated that it can do these things very effectively. That does not mean, though

Public Safety committee  Yes, Mr. Chairman, and I've said I regret it.

Public Safety committee  No, I do not, Mr. Chairman.

Public Safety committee  Because national security is not at issue here.