Information & Ethics committee  It's a good question, but I think what we're saying to you, Mr. Kelly, is that the answer is, unfortunately, “Who knows?” This is an inappropriate definition that does not advance the interests of the security and intelligence community in terms of operational effectiveness and t

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I think the importance of maintaining a balance between need to know and need to share, which has been an ongoing tension in the entire western intelligence world since the 9/11 attacks, is of critical importance. The problem I see in SCISA is that the balance was nev

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. It's an intriguing question. I may not be the best person to try to answer it. I think it is an important question. It was raised, if my memory serves me properly, with the Privacy Commissioner in the previous session. The best I can do is to give you my quick underst

Information & Ethics committee  I'm very close. I'm happy to discuss this in questions. The last principle is one that has also come to your attention, I'm sure; it's the accountability principle. How do you ensure that SCISA can be held properly accountable? My recommendation in that regard goes to the questio

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Chair and members of the committee, I am grateful for the opportunity to appear before you to provide some views on the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act, or SCISA, which is now embedded in Canadian law following the passage of Bill C-51, the omnibus anti-ter

Public Safety committee  I'm puzzled why some of those changes weren't followed. I think perhaps it was the result of an excess of caution on the part of the government. They were wanting to start up this parliamentary exercise, particularly on control of membership and how membership would be appointed

Public Safety committee  Mr. Miller, thanks for the question. I was referring, though my mind was going a little foggy at that precise moment, to this element of the Security of Information Act, the special operational information that's written into Bill C-22, as an area that could be excluded from the

Public Safety committee  Do you want to go first?

Public Safety committee  I'm an optimistic academic and I'm convinced that the government will, indeed, move to fulfill its election promises to amend the problematic aspects of Bill C-51 that are now embedded in different forms of legislation. With regard to your best path forward, I've said that this

Public Safety committee  Historically, we do have a siloed system. We've created independent external review bodies that are focused on a particular agency of the government, SIRC for CSIS, the CSE commissioner for CSE, and what is now the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for aspects of the RCMP

Public Safety committee  If my memory serves me correctly, we also conducted a round table on Ms. Murray's bill, which you took part in. Putting it in context, we were aware, at the time, those of us who assisted Ms. Murray in drawing up the private member's bill, that the private member's bill had no

Public Safety committee  Certainly. I think it's the clear intention in the mandate provided to the committee of parliamentarians that CBSA, along with other security and intelligence departments and agencies, would fall under its purview. In fact, if the committee is tempted to follow my suggestion of a

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Clement. It's an excellent question. I'll draw the attention of committee members to what section 8 of the Security of Information Act says under the heading of “Special Operational Information and Persons Permanently Bound to Secrecy”. I think Mr. Clement is abs

Public Safety committee  Chairman, members of the committee, it's a great pleasure to have the chance to give testimony on Bill C-22, An Act to establish the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians . I'd like to begin by making some brief contextual remarks about the legislatio

Public Safety committee  Thank you, sir. My desire would have been—and perhaps it was a little unrealistic in the political circumstances of the green paper and recognizing the fact that this is an unprecedented experiment—to have seen a broader opening statement about the kinds of national security thr