Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  No, I don't. I think the phrase “drowning in information” has been used. I think there is an attempt to try to filter, as it comes in, what information is relevant. Obviously, we run the risk of overriding the system, as it were, and I would like to believe that some of those fil

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  The program is in its infancy. The kind of thing we're talking about, its primary intent is essentially to be able to parse large bits of information from the Internet and break it into digestible chunks. To answer your question about its utility, we have been in discussions with

Public Safety committee  It's absolutely critical in judicial authorization, but we could also imagine circumstances where exigencies would exist. The example that is being used perpetually now is the idea of being able to say to somebody's parents that their son or daughter has been radicalized and make

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely. We don't know what will be coming. We know the situation has changed and is different from what it was 30 years ago, but it's changing much more quickly than it did in the interim. We had a sort of lull period, if you will, and now things seem to have picked up s

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. I think the comment I would make back, madam, is individual cases and tragic cases that we've seen don't necessarily make good policy. While we certainly don't want to minimize the danger that it comes from, I think there is a reciprocal danger of dev

Public Safety committee  Good evening. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak here today. It's truly an honour to be here. Out of respect for the work of the committee, I will try to make my comments brief. I'm not a lawyer. I will leave the nuances of Bill C-51 to people who are far more qualif

Public Safety committee  I think that right now the legal grey area that they're operating in is probably holding them back from the kinds of things that we would need from them in terms of gathering information. I suspect that it is limiting what they feel they can do. They're operating with one arm tie

Public Safety committee  I think we have to consider these days that we're increasingly talking about the issue of the foreign fighter problem. I think we understand they constitute an increasing theat to our country. There is evidence that while they don't engage in a significant number of acts when the

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for inviting me here today. I want to keep my comments brief. I would echo pretty much everything that's been said up until this point in terms of the need for ministerial oversight. I think we all agree with that. I would think we would all agree that the co