Public Safety committee  Maybe I'm not following your question. My understanding of the amendment is that it's for a complaints function particularly with Global Affairs and CBSA. The minister has made the point a few times that the CBSA review mechanism, including complaints, functions on a separate tr

Public Safety committee  That's impossible to answer given that this depends.... It's a GIC prerogative to do that and normally it would take more than 30 days. Especially on national security, we may need to vet the person and so on. Just to be clear, proposed subsection 5(1) is the process for the ac

Public Safety committee  Perhaps it's more a discussion with the drafters about “may” versus “peut”. I understand them to be synonyms, but I would want to have the jurilinguists look at that. It was intended to be “may” on the French side.

Public Safety committee  I'm not familiar with another organization that would require a vice-chair, in law. (Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Public Safety committee  I'll take a crack at it. On page five of the act, proposed subsection 5(1), there is a process for an acting chair, the vice-chair. There's no vice-chair formally appointed. There already is a section in the act to cover that.

Public Safety committee  In proposed subsection 5(1), if the chair is not able, or if there is no vice-chair, there is a process to nominate an acting chair.

Public Safety committee  It's page five, proposed subsection 5(1), acting chair.

Public Safety committee  Certainly, they may want a vice-chair. I guess the difference here is that this is a review body, where the governing structure really flows from the executive director and from the staff of the executive director. This is a board that's going to meet infrequently, so the need fo

Finance committee  I'm not sure why my light went on.

Finance committee  I would agree. The cryptocurrency issue is a growing one, potentially exponentially. It's hard to quantify it right now, so it's the issue of the future, for sure.

Finance committee  On the issue of bulk cash, in the Department of Finance paper there's a whole page and a half dedicated to potential solutions for dealing with the issue of bulk cash and the problems it creates in other jurisdictions—in Europe in particular. The committee could look at that. Oth

Finance committee  The Office of the Privacy Commissioner looks at FINTRAC every two years. That's one. The big issue for the Privacy Commissioner is whether the information FINTRAC is collecting is relevant. There is commentary on that. I would look to the new national security intelligence co

Finance committee  The obvious one is the $10,000 limit. If you get rid of the limit, you can have a lot more information. However, there would be a serious effect on privacy from doing to that, and a serious question over whether doing that would actually lead to more intelligence on threats. Ther

Finance committee  This feeds into the following issue—and maybe it's a red herring, the $10,000. The issue is what is a suspicious transaction and how the financial system is equipped to identify, on its own, these suspicious transactions and report them FINTRAC, which can in turn report them to i

Finance committee  I'm not an expert on this. I don't think the department is an expert. I think the community is still struggling with what blockchain is, but we would agree with everything you said. There are threats here and there are opportunities. There is a real plus side on cybersecurity, on