Public Safety committee  I can only echo Mr. Tremblay. When I was in Montreal, in charge of Quebec, we had a member of CSIS seconded to INSET at C Division. This facilitated the exchange of information. The CSIS member had access to her own database. INSETs facilitate liaison and are a good approach to c

Public Safety committee  My quick response is no.

Public Safety committee  If you look at our mandate, we obviously have a role in all four phases—detect, prevent, deny, response—but to different degrees. I think it's pretty obvious in terms of detect and prevent what our role would be, and response also. If there is an incident or an investigation we

Public Safety committee  We are a very nimble organization. That's the nature of the work we do, so we have to adapt all the time. If you go back to moving from more of a CI priority during the Cold War to more of a CT environment today.... The emergence of cyber was also another issue we had to adapt to

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, and members of the committee, good morning. I am pleased to be here today to discuss issues relating to security threats to critical infrastructure in Canada, and particularly to our rail network. As members will know, CSIS is mandated to collect, analyze, and advise

Public Safety committee  Money, like we say in French, is the sinews of war. Obviously, it is a crucial issue, and it is one that we're working on in partnership, be it with the RCMP or FINTRAC, for example, or international partners within the service. Because of the importance of this, we have a unit

Public Safety committee  For this service, terrorism is still the number one priority in terms of threats to the security of Canada. Within that threat, radicalization, or what is known as homegrown terrorism, is the number one priority. As we've seen with the Toronto 18, it is something concrete that do

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair and members of the committee, good afternoon. I'm pleased to be here today to discuss matters related to Bill S-7, the combatting terrorism act. As you are probably aware, the director of CSIS spoke to Bill S-7 at the Senate anti-terrorism committee last