Public Safety committee  Again I think you're talking about discrete initiatives of some years ago. Obviously for core spending now, there are departmental performance reports. There are various reports that are public and discussed. Whether it's the estimates, the public accounts, all that kind of norma

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. Is it an overall analysis, from a national security point of view, of what the totality of cuts has meant to the community across the board that you're asking for?

Public Safety committee  In very broad terms, during the deficit reduction action plan discussions, the national security advisor, together with other deputies from the community, met consistently to discuss the impact of cuts on national security. There was an ongoing dialogue among deputies during that

Public Safety committee  Unfortunately I don't have a great answer for you. The CBSA would be well placed to give you a bit more detail, operationally, on how things are working at the border and what their efforts are for interoperability, dealing with local communities, and any posts that would be isol

Public Safety committee  Do you mean what the 10 sectors are, how the plan worked, and so on?

Public Safety committee  I'll do my best. Critical infrastructure is not my direct responsibility, but in 2010 the Minister of Public Safety, together with his counterparts in the provinces, announced the national strategy for critical infrastructure. Essentially this is a plan to address threats to vita

Public Safety committee  The Prime Minister, I think, is where the buck stops. Under him is the Minister of Public Safety, and obviously the counterterrorism strategy is something that he released, but it was done in cooperation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Justice, the Minister

Public Safety committee  Certainly there's a series of deputy-level committees that meet frequently, almost weekly, to talk about emerging issues, whether those are threat issues or new policy or legislation. Those committees advise ministers, right up to the Cabinet Committee on National Security, which

Public Safety committee  We certainly have to talk to Passport Canada about what information they push out now. Obviously, they would be looking at what's lawful to push out—if they had information—to make sure there's a lawful basis for that information to move. I haven't heard the concern that there'

Public Safety committee  I'm referring to the CT, counterterrorism, strategy. We tend to not define terrorism directly. We talk about the terrorist activities that you see described in the Criminal Code. That's an act or omission undertaken inside or outside Canada for a political, religious, or ideologi

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Public Safety committee  I think there's an element of subjectivity in how you look at this.

Public Safety committee  The answer is no. The purpose of the bill is not just about CSIS. It's much broader than that. I believe there's a schedule attached to the bill. There are 17 departments and agencies that are involved in national security in one way or the other. I think the amendment would nar

Public Safety committee  That is not the case. This does not change the mandate of the service or the powers of the service in any way. All we wanted to do was to make sure that the definition allowed for the mandates of other departments and agencies involved in national security to lawfully receive inf

Public Safety committee  No. Again, the 17 are the receivers. They are the national security departments and agencies that are somehow related. The act is about sharing of all of the Government of Canada with those national security agencies. There's no change in collection authorities by anyone in the