Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair and members of Parliament, thank you very for the invitation to appear here this afternoon. It’s my distinct pleasure to speak to you today about the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act, or SCISA. Before I speak about SCISA and provide my organization's perspec

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are many security concerns with regard to northern Iraq. Whether or not this operation would be targeted specifically, as opposed to other operations, would depend on a variety of factors: where it is, how big it is, how attractive it is, and how well secured it is. What th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From my perspective, assessing what is happening in northern Iraq is an ongoing activity. This particular operation will not change the level of effort we put into that in a significant way one way or the other, because we are already so engaged.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are we talking about refugee camps?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would have to go back and look. I'm not aware of any off the top of my head.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you. We're not really in the business of recommendations, in what I do.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What we would be able to say is that this, as I have said in my statement, a very difficult environment, and even with the best preparations, it is going to generate surprises and enormous difficulties—much more so, in my view, than what we ran into in much more controlled enviro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know if I have the level of specifics that you're interested in, given the number of internally displaced Yazidis, but the vast majority of them have found refuge within the territory held by the Kurdistan Regional Government, which has made some significant efforts to de

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't speak to what we're doing on the operational side of it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, the role of Intelligence Command is really to do the assessment of the security situation of these things. What we may or may not have done in terms of operationalizing this work, or the kinds of relationships we have with.... We certainly do have relationships with Kurdis

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the overall security assessment and the objectives of the various players on the ground, it is possible that you could find willing partners there, as the Germans did.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know enough about the German agreement, nor about refugee resettlement, to comment knowledgeably on that, unfortunately.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From our perspective, we are examining the situation all day and every day, and our role of providing advice and assessment is ongoing, which we do all the time, anyway. There are no limits from that perspective.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The role of my organization is to provide intelligence assessment on international security situations. I can certainly do that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know off the top of my head, but we have refuellers, and we have some other aircraft involved still in the campaign.