Public Safety committee  It is the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act, which comes about as the result of Bill C-51. It must be said that the act is not binding on other departments.

Public Safety committee  The use of the act remains voluntary. It is to facilitate the exchange of information. As for protection, the act stipulates that the agency providing the information must make sure that the information is relevant to the recipient institution's jurisdiction.

Public Safety committee  I'm not in a position to debate legal threshold, but the other protection we haven't talked about, and I've just mentioned it, is the fact that the Privacy Commissioner can review the information that was exchanged. In the case of the service, SIRC can review all the information

Public Safety committee  I think it was February that I was in front of this committee. At the time I believe I mentioned something around two dozen, if I'm correct. My answer will still be the same because we're not doing a huge number of them. It could have been 18 at the time, and now it's 20.

Public Safety committee  Actually, in the annual report that was recently tabled by the Security Intelligence Review Committee, SIRC, the matter of exchanging information with foreign partners was studied. SIRC found that, after that departmental directive, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CS

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the questions, but two of the three questions are actually more law enforcement, so they would be for the commissioner. In terms of the second question on ongoing investigations, I've also testified that—and I'm talking about the 60 returnees—it's important to unde

Public Safety committee  Not off of the top of my head. I couldn't say how many of the 60 are—

Public Safety committee  I'll give you the example of email. Metadata would be everything except the content of the actual email. It would be the email address, the IP address. The phone number would be...although not in the case of the email. To go back to the old mail, it would be what you would find o

Public Safety committee  I do not think the issue is whether one would have more impact than the other. It is really a continuum. We certainly cannot solve this matter simply by collecting information, or enforcing the laws and carrying out military operations. Nor will the issue be solved through deradi

Public Safety committee  I will give you an example. The phenomenon of people going abroad to take part in jihad, in terrorist activities, is not new. We have seen it in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya. However, even if we add up all of these conflicts, we see that the number of people involved now in

Public Safety committee  Yes, the role of the service and the work we've done so far, for example, being part of the Kanishka project and the analysis the service has done itself in terms of factors leading to radicalization, are certainly informing Public Safety as they're working on this project.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Could you repeat that?

Public Safety committee  Yes, as SIRC is expanding the number of reviews they're doing—

Public Safety committee  Well, that's it, but as we're expanding our operations, SIRC might increase the number of reviews they're doing of our operations and we need more people to actually support the work that SIRC is doing in terms of those annual reviews.