Public Safety committee  Australia, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. have strategies. I think ours is probably more like Australia's and the United Kingdom's than the U.S.'s. The U.S.'s is similar but a little bit different. I believe the Netherlands has a similar kind of strategy. Beyond that, I'm not s

Public Safety committee  Risk to the person being mistreated, for example. So it's proportional to that. The higher the risk, the higher the sign-offs and scrutiny that goes behind that decision. Ministerial direction in this area and all areas is also overseen by the Security Intelligence Review Commit

Public Safety committee  First of all, the ministerial direction around information-sharing is quite clear that information-sharing has to be lawful, domestically and internationally. That's the basis. Any decisions in terms of sharing information are also proportional to risk, in terms of the sign-offs

Public Safety committee  Okay. As you know, Public Safety is a portfolio, so the Canada Border Services Agency, the RCMP, and CSIS are all essential core parts of the security intelligence community. Outside of the portfolio, certainly the Privy Council Office has a strong coordinating role, but it also

Public Safety committee  Do you want me to list off the ones—

Public Safety committee  I was just going to say that I imagine there are two layers to the answer. One is that there are very likely internal reviews that CSIS has done with regard to the experience in Afghanistan, given the complex environment there. I would need to check on how the Security Intelligen

Justice committee  Thank you. My name is John Davies. I'm the director general, national security policy, at Public Safety Canada. I'm joined today by my colleague Emmanuelle Deault-Bonin, who is the senior analyst and manager in my group, and an expert in counter-proliferation policy. I am plea

Justice committee  Sorry, I cannot answer that question.

Justice committee  I'm going to try to start. I can't speak to the science behind the conversion, but I think there is a broader point of the ongoing interest of certain terrorist groups in weapons of mass destruction. Previously al Qaeda has clearly indicated an interest in obtaining anthrax and

Justice committee  Yes, I do very much. I think there are a lot of benefits to Bill S-9. The Minister of Justice talked about the importance of particularizing the offence around counter-proliferation in the Criminal Code and extending the sentencing. I think both of those around proliferation of

Justice committee  I think that is more of a question for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. I think they're more the lead on that than Public Safety.

Justice committee  We don't look at the threat assessment for necessarily higher or lower, inside or outside Canada. Counter-proliferation as an issue has a lot of different layers to it. There are issues of financing, export, tracking and control, capacity building abroad, protection of nuclear fa

Justice committee  I think it would be better for our Justice colleagues to answer. My recollection is that the minister, or perhaps it was the senior counsel, thought it would help clarify. It wasn't overly needed but it was helpful in clarifying.

Justice committee  The bill doesn't directly talk about capacity building abroad, but I think that issue is embedded in a lot of the other aspects of the various regimes around controlling proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In that sense, absolutely that's an important initiative origina

Justice committee  Thank you for your question. There's a lot of different layers again, I think, to how you would look at threats in this area. The first is as I mentioned before, the aspiration of terrorist groups to obtain these weapons and then to use them. That's one angle, a lot of known, pu