Finance committee  I think it was in 1984 or 1985 that the CSIS Act was put in. Probably at the time it was to give independent eyes and ears for the minister, different from the external review body of SIRC. I think, though, what's going on here is no change to the proportion or amount of review t

Finance committee  Again, the Inspector General is part of Public Safety. It's like another part, so the office is not really independent. It's part of the bureaucracy of Public Safety. The Security Intelligence Review Committee is truly independent—it's arm's length—so they will be given additiona

Finance committee  I'm not sure much has changed. The key point here is that the function is what's important and that same function is going to continue. It's only going to be dealt with around the corner basically, in a different building downtown. The main thing that's changed since 2010 is the

Finance committee  I can't answer that clearly. I'm not sure what our advice would be with or without a deficit reduction action plan. As I said, I think there's strong policy merit either way. I think there was clear duplication going on in the system and there are efficiencies to be gained, which

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  There is not currently a chair. I believe that's a Governor in Council appointment that's being worked on. It's not my area.

Finance committee  As I said, that's being worked on now. The Inspector General herself actually retired at the end of last year.

Finance committee  I'm not sure, but a few months.

Finance committee  No. To be clear, the Inspector General position is an internal accountability mechanism for the Minister of Public Safety. Anything you've seen in the public from the Inspector General came out through an access to information request, a sort of redacted version on a website.

Finance committee  Yes, as I said before, the deficit reduction action targets are now at $800,000. That's what we're working to. If you impute the cost of full-time equivalent positions at the Inspector General, in operating costs it comes out to about $1 million or so. We are looking to realloc

Finance committee  We're just working through that with our corporate services folks on how this is going to translate.

Finance committee  Thank you.