Information & Ethics committee  When the legislation was going through?

Information & Ethics committee  To be honest, I wasn't in a business that would have had me paying attention to it when the legislation was going through. But I have certainly lived situations in the past, as Monsieur Roussel said, where I can imagine that this legislation, had it existed, would have been usefu

Information & Ethics committee  Without touching on the specific cases you've cited, which I'm in no position to comment on in any case, there is always a tension in these issues in terms of what to share and what not to share. The intelligence business, fundamentally, gets some of the questions that others hav

Information & Ethics committee  I'm happy to go first on that. It's clearly stated in the legislation that SCISA does not affect collection mandates whatsoever, so there is no net effect of SCISA on collection of any kind, bulk or otherwise.

Information & Ethics committee  To simply state what's in the act, in terms of sharing I would say what SCISA brings to the table is a clear framework with a couple of tests in it for whether or not the information can be shared. It's a very short piece of legislation. It's written very clearly, and the tests,

Information & Ethics committee  If I could add one more point....

Information & Ethics committee  The need to know, determining who you actually want to share sensitive information with because of the risk to that information, is still a very real principle in the intelligence community.

Information & Ethics committee  I think I would agree in general terms with that. I think that the legislation was passed in response to a perceived need for a framework to do exactly the kind of sharing that we had trouble with from time to time previously. By providing a framework for that sharing, it is a us

Information & Ethics committee  It's a bit like what was just said. Occasionally, you would come across that information incidentally. It does happen on deployed operations that you would come across things that do or may impact on Canadians. When those cases occur, we hand them over to the appropriate Canadian

Information & Ethics committee  We don't collect Canadian information intentionally.

Information & Ethics committee  My organization does not use warrants. Occasionally, if we are operating in support of a domestic law enforcement agency, we'll be authorized under a warrant by them, and all the rules of that warrant will apply. That's when we're working in support of them, and effectively we're

Information & Ethics committee  I can take a crack at that. Much as I think Mr. Rochon will probably tell you, in the context of our operations abroad, the issue of holding onto information is a bit of a different set of questions. We're not dealing with information that is necessarily touching on individuals

Information & Ethics committee  We also don't collect information on Canadians. When we receive information of that nature, it's usually part of a judicial inquiry conducted by the RCMP, for example, that concerns a member of the Canadian Armed Forces or a National Defence employee. In these cases, we determine

Information & Ethics committee  No, absolutely not.

Information & Ethics committee  What do we do to ensure that the privacy of Canadians remains paramount? Like Mr. Rochon, most of our work, as I said, is directed overseas, and it's part of Canadian operations abroad. Where we do deal with Canadians is on our counter-intelligence program, but there it really h