Public Safety committee  Of course, it can't infringe upon the charter. I've just said that we've used the threat reduction measures about two dozen times now, so I cannot sit here and say that it's not useful. We've used it. What I can say, though, is that the way that new mandate is articulated in o

Public Safety committee  That's a policy issue to be decided by government, and the service will, whatever tools are put in place, review and have oversight over the service, and—

Public Safety committee  —we'll co-operate and work within that framework.

Public Safety committee  I'll talk about the CSIS Act. We continue.... SCISA didn't change anything.

Public Safety committee  Well, not for us. We still work under the CSIS Act, so for what we do, the definitions are in section 2 of the CSIS Act.

Public Safety committee  We are responsible for the national security component, but there are other aspects.

Public Safety committee  Yes, it might be 20. An important point to specify is that all of them didn't require Federal Court warrants.

Public Safety committee  When it comes to our mandate, our threshold to investigate is lower. We're in the position at the very emergence of a threat to be there and to see the evolution. As the commissioner just mentioned, that evolution today from planning to execution, and from radicalization to mobil

Public Safety committee  There are examples in the green paper. I think when I testified previously, I gave an example that “non-warranted” can be as simple as asking somebody to intervene because a young person is on the path to radicalization and mobilizing to violence. It could be informing the parent

Public Safety committee  Sorry, if...?

Public Safety committee  You mean the relationship...?

Public Safety committee  Oh, it's a framework. It's a framework for CSIS personnel and the RCMP when we're looking at the same investigation and how to do this. To make sure there's notification and no gaps is extremely important for us, and that whatever we're going to be doing will not have a negative

Public Safety committee  Exactly.

Public Safety committee  It is said that information obtained as the result of mistreatment is often untrustworthy, and I am not here to try to contradict that. The fact is that, if we have information obtained as the result of torture, we are aware that the information may not be trustworthy and we try

Public Safety committee  Today, we have legislation that deals with the exchange of information in the particular case you mentioned, that is between Global Affairs Canada and the service. That did not exist three years ago or even last year. As has been announced in the media, CSIS and Global Affairs Ca