Public Safety committee  I don't know the answer to that question. Can you give me one minute? I'm going to confer.

Public Safety committee  I'd like to do a slight explanation of clause 22. The clause enables the review bodies to share information with the committee, subject to limitations under what were clauses 14 and 16. The provision is necessary, because the review bodies are otherwise subject to legal prohibi

Public Safety committee  I would also just point out that I slightly misspoke. I want to be very clear that, in Bill C-22, at subclause 21(5), where I said “injurious to national security”, I should have been more accurate in saying: the disclosure of which would be injurious to national security, nati

Public Safety committee  To your point, the act is silent on that, including with the amendment. To Mr. Davies' point, one can imagine that they'll be back and forth with the committee in terms of the redactions that are requested, but the act is silent.

Public Safety committee  The act allows the Prime Minister to direct that certain information that's injurious to national security be redacted from the report. The act gives the authority to the Prime Minister to request that information be redacted from the report. It is the Prime Minister who would

Public Safety committee  The bill is silent on what information, on how that information is communicated to the committee, or what constitutes the information that the Prime Minister gives to the committee in terms of the redaction. It just says that the Prime Minister can indicate to the committee that

Public Safety committee  The committee of parliamentarians is entitled to the information that it requests, and the minister under proposed subsection 15(3).... I will read it, actually: After the appropriate Minister receives the request, he or she must provide or cause to be provided to the Committ

Public Safety committee  In their reports the committee of parliamentarians can make...I'll use the word “complaints” that they're not getting access to the information they required, if that is their interpretation of it. The minister, however, does have to provide the information asked for.

Public Safety committee  I like to think of them as a court of public opinion.

Public Safety committee  Again, the committee is entitled.... I'm trying to find another word to use. The committee has the right—I'll use that language, though it's always dangerous language—to the information that it requests within the construct of the bill. There are clauses within the bill that limi

Public Safety committee  The bill says that the information must be provided; it does not say that a specific person must be provided. Again, if there is concern that information is not being provided that is relevant to the deliberations of the committee of parliamentarians, the committee of parliamenta

Public Safety committee  I'll respond, if that's all right.

Public Safety committee  In Australia, there's an express override of the Parliamentary Papers Act 1908, to support disclosure restrictions and offence provisions for members, so there are other international examples, and we are aware of the international comparisons.

Public Safety committee  I would just clarify that the approach in the bill only restricts members' immunity under parliamentary privilege. If they disclose classified information that they have received through their participation on the committee of parliamentarians, it does not restrict. Just to be ve

Public Safety committee  That's correct. The clause is consistent with a committee of parliamentarians, as opposed to a committee of Parliament. As Ms. Miles has pointed out, it would allow for parliamentary privilege not applying in the same way to matters before the committee.