Public Safety committee  I will answer in English. Forgive me, but it will be easier for me to tell you exactly what I mean.

Public Safety committee  That is a very good question, Chair. In fact, Public Safety itself has a directorate or division dedicated exclusively to training, both from the standpoint of an emergency response to crises—ice, floods, fires, and so on—and from the national security standpoint. The departmen

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  You're right, I'm not about to make a policy statement on that. It's quite frankly not our prerogative as officials to make a statement on that. We provide the advice. I would argue, on a personal level in my current capacity, that for the enhancement and the protection of the s

Public Safety committee  Yes, I would.

Public Safety committee  Very simply, oftentimes the easiest way to capture this is to compare it to an onion. The security intelligence community has layers, and departments and agencies are central to the core, or they find themselves on the outside. It also includes policy and operations. For example,

Public Safety committee  That is a very good question. It speaks to the tool kit or what we referred to after 9/11 with the Anti-terrorism Act, Bill C-36 at the time, which provided the security intelligence and law enforcement community with an appropriate tool kit that they could use should they needed

Public Safety committee  I understand the reintroduction did include some enhancements that were identified by the parliamentary committee which reviewed the Anti-terrorism Act on that. One of the logical arguments that follows is that the fact those powers were not extensively used, does show that the l

Public Safety committee  I think there's also an important distinction, or at least an important point to make, about information-sharing, which answers your question about the architecture in the international community. Information-sharing does not always involve classified information. We share uncla

Public Safety committee  Very briefly, I think for example we talked about listing terrorist entities and about how freezing their assets in order to deny them funding is crucial. I don't have the exact number off the top of my head, but I think that somewhere close to a quarter of a million dollars is c

Public Safety committee  I can start off, and maybe I'll turn to Mr. Davies. I think you've hit on a very important point about the nature of terrorism itself and the terrorist threat. The whole objective of terrorists is to undertake their activities to achieve their objective. They constantly change.

Public Safety committee  Moving from the prevention pillar, what you're asking about is our moving into the response.... That's a very good question. In fact, the government has the federal emergency response plan, which is the document that guides how the government will respond to an event affecting th

Public Safety committee  The Government Operations Centre runs constantly. It's 24/7 to begin with, but it constantly runs exercises and is part of exercises, running drills. For example, with regard to the air incident protocol, which is a protocol for the government to respond to air threats, they some

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, the response to that question has to go back to what this strategy is about, and that is countering terrorism, and terrorism in all its forms and threat forms. Cyber security, as a thing in and of itself, is of great concern to Public Safety. In fact, Public Safety is

Public Safety committee  The powers that are found in the current draft bill, Bill C-30, are one part of the critical puzzle of all efforts to combat terrorism, keeping in that strict interpretation, yes.