Public Safety committee  More recently, it would be just normally through a web release of a media relations product. Certainly, in the past it has been through access to information requests, but, obviously, there's certainly a new interest in being more proactive in explaining to Canadians ministerial

Public Safety committee  I would just add that, obviously, CSE is not targeting its activities to Canadians. For CSIS, that's essential to their mandate, so there's probably more attachment to the phrase of the charter in their act.

Public Safety committee  I'll just add to that. As was already said, the law is already clear in the charter of rights, the Criminal Code, and international law, all of which are noted in the preamble in LIB-16, so we think the law in this area is pretty clear.

Public Safety committee  There's no reporting down. They're encouraged to co-operate and deconflict and so on. There is a way to move information that's necessary between them.

Public Safety committee  As was said, CSE has been dealing with review as a distinct unit in its agency for the last 20 years to manage oversight and review. It's the same thing with CSIS and with SERC for the last 30 years. They are already conditioned to deal with review. There is certainly more themat

Public Safety committee  Again, NSIRA is not new for CSE and CSIS in the sense that they already have a review. The new parts of NSIRA are inter-agency review.

Public Safety committee  I understand that. One comment would be that I think behind this is some concern that if there's so much administrative burden on the agencies, it would affect the normal national security activities. If that was ever apparent, obviously, the committee of parliamentarians or NSI

Public Safety committee  I think we would have to talk to our justice colleagues and get back to you on that. I'm not aware of any.

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure how to answer that. I'm not sure. It may be common; it may not be common.

Public Safety committee  Just talking about NDP-47, which is just one component in the broader threat reduction and elimination in the mandate, at least the warranted reduction, what NDP-47 does is take out the reporting that was already in Bill C-51. In subsection 6(5) of the CSIS Act, there already is

Public Safety committee  It's in the sense that the numbers of warrants on the collection side are already public, for example. They're already issued in SIRC's annual report. For the provisions to ensure the committee of parliamentarians and the NSIRA are also alerted to how CSIS goes about implementing

Public Safety committee  I may not directly be answering your question, but international human rights law is already ported into domestic law. It's already part of Canadian law.

Public Safety committee  Just to be sure we have understood, in fixing the front part, I think you need to fix the back part of the phrase too, because it also says “preceding fiscal year”. You'd probably want to amend, as you go down, “preceding calendar year” so that you're not comparing apples and ora

Public Safety committee  Sure. Just to echo that comment, the “threats to the security of Canada” are already defined in the CSIS Act, as was said. It's very clear in the CSIS Act. The Security of Canada Information Sharing Act is not just about CSIS. It's about the entire national security community a

Public Safety committee  To add to that, to get on the list is reasonable grounds to suspect, but that's not the same threshold for denying travel. There's a two-part test. The decision must be considered specific, reasonable, and necessary to prevent an individual from threatening transportation securit