Public Safety committee  I think the why will be clearly stated. The who is the Prime Minister.

Public Safety committee  I think I would maybe look at it from the other direction, which is that the Prime Minister won't simply take whatever his advisers tell him either. It's ultimately his decision.

Public Safety committee  Sure, she can repeat it.

Public Safety committee  The accountability is through the PM. It's his decision.

Public Safety committee  The proposed revision that was just advanced speaks to “clearly identified as a revised version and must indicate the extent of, and reason for, the revision”.

Public Safety committee  I think— Oh, sorry.

Public Safety committee  It's independent in lots of ways. One is just the wide breadth of information from any department or agency. It's independent as to where it chooses to focus its activities and it's independent in that it gets a vast amount of information and can come up with findings that it det

Public Safety committee  It is, subject to some very tight constraints.

Public Safety committee  It is just part of the Westminster system that ministers decide. The minister, as head of the organization, decides for the organization.

Public Safety committee  I think it is, yes.

Public Safety committee  If I can just build off one thing, it's easy to be lost in the amendments and the clauses, but just observe that this would be the biggest change in a generation to the intelligence review system in Canada. This is something big and important, and part of what would make it a suc

Public Safety committee  Yes. In fact, that's the intention. Given the highly sensitive information that the committee will be receiving, it's necessary to circumscribe parliamentary privilege. They've done it in a contained way, and that's outlined in the clause.

Public Safety committee  I really hesitate to do this. An operation tends to have a specific duration attached to it, and it tends to have a specific goal. An activity could be general strategic planning of a department. That's an ongoing activity. That's an activity they do all the time, but it's not a

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  The intent was really more on the focus, as it says, of “injurious to national security”. As Minister Goodale said to this committee earlier, it's intended not to be used very often, but the focus really is whether there is injury to national security. You've cottoned on to the