Justice committee  I'm not sure if Public Safety would be normally informed on these kinds of things. I imagine a number of the portfolio agencies.... Certainly the CBSA would be as materials cross borders. Perhaps there are components at the RCMP. Obviously, Transport Canada would play a big role

Justice committee  Again, we're from the policy group at Public Safety. We have a lot of links to the operation side and national security.

Justice committee  Yes, just that probably what you're aware of is that any time a policy or legislation is brought forward, or civil servants are working on them, you work all the way along with legal services, which provide advice relative to privacy, consistency with the charter, and so on. Also

Justice committee  We could undertake it, if you weren't already meeting with them, to talk to them about whether there are some numbers—

Justice committee  I'm not sure if they're available, but we will undertake to—

Justice committee  Thank you for the question, but I cannot give you those percentages. I'm not sure if the committee is hearing from members of the Canada Border Services Agency, but they may be able to give you precise numbers. If not, we could undertake to look into that for you. Essentially i

Justice committee  Though I'm part of the portfolio that includes the CBSA, I don't directly work with the CBSA, nor do I know exactly how they managed any kind of budget cuts they faced during the latest financial cuts. Why don't we undertake to talk to them about that, and we can report to the co

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It may make sense that I go first, as my comments are written at a higher level and will give context to the comments of my colleagues. As many of you know, Public Safety Canada leads policy development on a number of national security issues. Our role's

Public Safety committee  In broad terms, access to information is intelligence. They're synonyms. They go together. Any kind of policy program or legislative improvement that helps law enforcement, our intelligence agencies, access more information to make it lawful to lower risk to Canadians, that's obv

Public Safety committee  Just maybe in general terms and my colleagues can talk about a more specific link to rail. The beyond the border initiative agreement between President Obama and Prime Minister Harper is a big driver of a lot of security-related investments and efforts over the last few years. Of

Public Safety committee  Are you talking about the PSAT money?

Public Safety committee  I don't have knowledge of the way that money was broken down.

Public Safety committee  I'm certain that some was allocated to the transport sector.

Public Safety committee  For the counterterrorism strategy, Public Safety Canada coordinates, on behalf of the security intelligence community, the implementation of that strategy, likewise for the strategy on critical infrastructure, and it is the same thing for the cyber-strategy. I'm sorry, I've for

Public Safety committee  Again, if you're talking about the PSAT money, I think that money has run out some time ago. Most resources for departments and agencies are called A-base or normal core funding of these departments. Are you asking if there are additional resources and who designs where incremen