Information & Ethics committee  I would like to add in the law enforcement context, which is an answer I wanted to provide to an earlier question as well, that there's another layer of complexity in the law enforcement when it's information that's obtained by virtue of a search warrant, because then you're gett

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  When I spoke of “relevant” and “necessary”, I was talking about the relationship between the RCMP and our commission as opposed to the sharing of the RCMP.

Information & Ethics committee  I would agree with that.

Information & Ethics committee  Just to add from our perspective, I agree with my colleagues. You have to think of national security as more than counterterrorism. It does go quite broad. With our review, it's not just going to be about information sharing under SCISA. It will be information sharing writ large

Information & Ethics committee  From the RCMP's perspective, the answer to your question is in the terms of reference of the review we're doing. Justice O'Connor's report is 10 years old, and the recommendations were made with respect to RCMP information sharing. As my colleague says, it's been going on. Inform

Information & Ethics committee  It's relatively small, because there's a provision in our legislation that allows us to refer a complaint to another body if it would be more appropriately dealt with elsewhere. When we receive those types, we give them to the Privacy Commissioner or the Access to Information Com

Information & Ethics committee  If I understand your question, it's simply a matter of the best practice. If we're looking at an RCMP file and we discover that some erroneous information has been provided to another agency, we'd certainly expect that information to be corrected. We have the authority to make re

Information & Ethics committee  You mean in terms of exchanging information?

Information & Ethics committee  When we initiate an investigation resulting from a complaint from a member of the public, or the systemic one that we're doing, the first step is to write to the RCMP, and they're required under the legislation to provide us with all relevant material. There is a fairly elaborat

Information & Ethics committee  I can say in the context of the RCMP that there are accountability mechanisms built in. If you're talking about the conduct of individuals who have either collected or inappropriately shared inaccurate information, and members of the public become aware of that, they can certainl

Information & Ethics committee  From our perspective, the best answer I can give you is that I'll have to get back to you when our report comes out. We are literally just at the stage now of reviewing those files. You're right that it could be one to one. It could be all sorts of different types of information

Information & Ethics committee  There are a couple of ways I can answer the question. The first is to say that in our reviews of RCMP activities and the conduct of individuals and incidents, we use that to inform broader systemic issues, so we will also be looking at internal processes within the RCMP. We're

Information & Ethics committee  I'll just add one comment. There is provision in our legislation that serves as a good example. We do have that authority to conduct joint reviews, hearings, and investigations, but our legislation stops short of allowing us to it with our federal partners. We do it extensively i

Information & Ethics committee  I think the only distinction I would make is that ours is not a plan; it's actually under way.