Information & Ethics committee  Threshold is absolutely key. You're right to ask and to think about that. If the threshold's too low, there are, obviously, negative privacy impacts. If it's too high, the benefits to national security and the viability of the act are threatened. In my remarks I just tried to ta

Information & Ethics committee  Also, the case you're talking about was about sharing with another government—

Information & Ethics committee  SCISA is about within the government.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the invitation to be here today to discuss the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act, or what we call SCISA. In addition to being a potential recipient of information disclosed under SCISA, Public Safety helps facilitate the use of the act by departments and ag

Public Safety committee  John Davies, director general, national security policy, Public Safety.

Public Safety committee  Maybe I would add it's also to live up to our international obligations. Canada has signed on to a number of United Nations Security Council resolutions on controlling travel in regard to foreign fighters and terrorist travel, and obviously to other international agreements not t

Public Safety committee  For the Minister of Public Safety, the portfolios of the RCMP, CSIS, and even CBSA are all very relevant to dealing with the issue of high-risk terrorist travellers. It's their information that probably 99% or 100% of the time will back or underpin passport decisions linked to na

Public Safety committee  Typically, the national security agencies—the Canadian Security Intelligence Service or the RCMP—will put forward an individual they believe has met the threshold for cancellation of “reasonable grounds to suspect” that the person is a threat to national security or is suspected

Public Safety committee  That could be the case.

Public Safety committee  It's best to look at the provisions here and the changes in the Canadian passport order and the changes in the budget implementation act as another option. It's in addition to Bill S-7, in addition to Bill C-51, and it gives security agencies another option for considering the be

Public Safety committee  There could be a case in which an individual has had their passport revoked, for example, and it's very clear that they need to travel, say, to a family funeral or something like that. There would be a discussion and confirmation that this was the case and about where the individ

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  By reconsideration decision you mean the.... Once the person is notified, they have 30 days to apply for reconsideration. There's a reconsideration process. There's no actual timeline on how that will work because there will be a lot of back and forth with the applicant. After th

Public Safety committee  There is no cost involved with implementing this.

Public Safety committee  There's a cost with implementing the proposals. The Department of Public Safety will absorb those costs in implementing the proposals. There's no new funding associated with this proposal.