Public Safety committee  From the defence intelligence standpoint, the simple answer to your question is yes. It is a rising threat across nation-state actors within their militaries, and it is a crosscutting threat. We're interested in it the same way we're interested in growth, for example, in submarin

National Defence committee  Retaliation by whom?

National Defence committee  I think it would be a mistake to characterize the testing and development they're doing as reaction. They do take advantage of the symbolic value, but we see their work being driven by engineering considerations, frankly.

National Defence committee  Again, my role in this is to describe the things that other countries may do and to make sure that Canadian decision-makers have the best possible information at their fingertips to have an advantage in information as they make decisions. With regard to the scenario you've pain

National Defence committee  The next panel may be better positioned to talk about what preparations Canada has in place. I am not in any way positioned to discuss that. Again, I'm not aware of the specific test you're talking about with regard to a barge and an EMP. I would have to look into that.

National Defence committee  I would say it's absolutely clear that the North Koreans are motivated by regime survival and that their behaviour is consistent with that aim. With regard to the issue of behaving in line with traditional deterrence policy, I think it's important to remember that the deterrenc

National Defence committee  I think I can probably take that one. You're absolutely correct that my testimony last year was different from this year's. The explanation for this is that a number of things have occurred over that intervening time in terms of ballistic and nuclear weapons capability—

National Defence committee  Look, the role of defence intelligence is to tell people what's going on in the world with as much detail and specificity as I can. What is done with it is up to others.

National Defence committee  As I said in my statement, there has been a notable increase in testing of both, under the current North Korean regime, and in the last year and a half to two years in particular.

National Defence committee  I think in that kind of hypothetical scenario you can spin it in a number of different directions. I would go back to the fact that the regime in North Korea is primarily motivated by its desire to survive itself and sustain its rule. While their rhetoric is colourful and their b

National Defence committee  As I said at the beginning, for us, threat is a combination of intent and capabilities. This is my third time with the committee where I've walked through this paradigm, and I've sensed a bit of frustration with it previously. The reality is that in the intelligence business, c

National Defence committee  It should be five.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me this morning. I am very pleased to appear before you today and share our views on North Korea and on the threat it represents for North America, to the extent that I am authorized to do so in an unclassified environm

Information & Ethics committee  Timeliness is a factor. Having said that, we don't live on 24 here. Generally speaking, as Mr. Rochon said, when you get a piece of information of any kind, it's the beginning of a process for an intelligence organization to try to run down exactly what that means. Timeliness i

Information & Ethics committee  I would say that, for any public servant, it's already crystal clear that you operate within your mandate. That's fairly fundamental to what we do. The issue of necessity versus relevance, I think, is a question for the committee and for the government, in terms of what the app