National Defence committee  On that, here are a couple of things. One is that the government passed a number of years ago the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, which identified state sponsors of terrorism or called for state sponsors of terrorism. The government identified both Iran and Syria as state

National Defence committee  We don't have an intelligence gathering function so we don't monitor Canadians, period. What we do, though, is we are engaged in conversations with key partners, whether it's the United States, other allies, even countries of destination of Canadians who are travelling abroad for

National Defence committee  From our perspective when we're looking at threats to Canada, there is a wide range whether it's things such as terrorism, illicit trafficking of drugs, whether it's human smuggling, weapons smuggling. There are a number of threats to Canada that don't necessarily fall specifical

National Defence committee  I've just a couple of things to add. Part of my responsibility is to also look from a threat perspective, in terms of threats to our missions abroad, and cyber threats to our missions abroad are one of the things that we have. I completely echo what Jill just said about not alw

National Defence committee  Transnational crime.

National Defence committee  I will answer first. Several departments are involved in this file. As was mentioned in our presentations, it is really the Department of Public Safety which is in charge of cyber-security. We work closely with all organizations in our field to advance the interests of Canadians

National Defence committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Ladies and gentlemen members of the committee, I am very happy to be here today with you along with my colleagues from National Defence and from the Canadian Armed Forces. I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you t