Public Safety committee  That's a fair question. I think it's the first time an all-of-government view of the threats facing Canada and Canadians has been put in one place. It's also the first time that the core principles driving the security intelligence community have been put in one place, which I th

Public Safety committee  What you have before you took about a year and a half to pull together. I don't know how you march backwards from there and say what was there and what wasn't. But it was, in terms of an effort, an all-government effort. It took about a year and a half to put together.

Public Safety committee  Maybe I will start, and Mike can weigh in. On critical infrastructure, such as water systems and so on, there is a plan, a critical infrastructure plan, for Canada. You're seeing only half of the national security branch from Public Safety. The other components are cyber securit

Public Safety committee  One aspect of exchanging information is day-to-day contact. There's a lot of discussion among the operators, the front line, to share information. In terms of, say, the relationship between the RCMP and the service, there are a lot of different, newer protocols to ensure they wor

Public Safety committee  Again, it depends on what you're talking about. If you're talking about passenger information, there are treaties, for example—

Public Safety committee  —being negotiated between Canada and the European Union to ensure the proper transfer of information, so that we are both bound legally to follow certain steps. These would be enacted through memorandums of understanding, and so on. The same thing applies on the operational lev

Public Safety committee  What particular kind of information are you talking about? Would that be advance passenger information shared between airlines or, for example, are we talking about information that law enforcement agencies would share on certain targets and sources?

Public Safety committee  I believe that's under Bill S-7, which is updating the Anti-terrorism Act. There's a provision for travelling for the purpose of terrorism, which is clarifying the legal—

Public Safety committee  I believe Bill S-7.... Again, Justice leads on this file, but the idea around Bill S-7 is to make it illegal to knowingly participate in activities of a terrorist group for the purpose of enhancing the ability of a terrorist group to carry out an act of terrorism. So the idea of

Public Safety committee  I think there's quite a continuum with that word and what it means. I think in some cases, such as with the U.S., it could be much more about working together on joint threat assessments, for example, and harmonizing around admissibility issues, and so on. In the Global Counter-

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Allowing for judicial review of those decisions or...?

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  The Minister of Public Safety and, I believe, the Minister of Justice both convene a group of their counterparts at the provincial level. That's supported by a group at the deputy minister level. In both those forums we've had a chance to brief them on the counter-terrorism strat

Public Safety committee  Sure. My reference to envy was certainly about Kanishka, the $10 million for research on countering violent extremism and counter-terrorism in general. A number of countries commented to us that we are extremely lucky to have this resource. As Mr. MacDonald was saying, there's no