Public Safety committee  What you're reading is part of the new warrant conditions that we were proposing—and correct me, Rob—but it is basically going forward. When you read the decision, the judge didn't rule on what we have now in terms of destruction.

Public Safety committee  In the Judge Noël decision, he does mention, in June 2016, the deputy minister of justice and myself appeared in front of the Federal Court en banc, so all available designated judges, to discuss the issue of duty of candour. As a result, we and the Department of Justice are now

Public Safety committee  If you want, Mr. Chair, if that number is really incorrect, we can come back to the committee with—

Public Safety committee  No, it's all with CSIS.

Public Safety committee  If I were going to give you a timeline...I can't at this point. It is a very complex decision.

Public Safety committee  That's a fair question. That specific data bank is actually centralized in headquarters, and the number of people who have access to it to do the analytics is restricted. So, it's not accessible to all CSIS employees. Again, SIRC has been tasked by the minister to monitor our r

Public Safety committee  I would hope that within six months we would be in a position to decide what shouldn't be destroyed and what should be destroyed.

Public Safety committee  Yes, we have backup of that data bank in the event that, for example, something would happen in headquarters, like some natural disaster. Again, the procedure is that if we were to destroy the data, we would make sure that the backup banks are also destroyed. Again, SIRC, I'm sur

Public Safety committee  Well, when he found out about the court decision.

Public Safety committee  When the court decision came out this fall, then the minister.... Actually, we had already taken measures such as stopping access and analysis. That's what the....

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I don't remember exactly what I said. I remember saying “the envelope”. I'm not sure if I said “nothing more”.

Public Safety committee  The only information out of that metadata-associated data bank we would share is when we've done analyses and we can link a piece of that metadata to a threat.

Public Safety committee  No, we wouldn't share raw metadata with other agencies. As I said, we would only share it once we've made the link between that metadata and a threat-related activity.

Public Safety committee  What I would say is the national security framework review that is ongoing is the place to have that discussion, because it seeks to achieve those two objectives: keeping the public safe and safeguarding our rights and freedoms. The only thing I would add to this is that Judge