Public Safety committee  Thank you for that question. I really like that one. I speak of the waterfront of CSIS activities, and I speak of an increasing waterfront of activities. They're doing more. They've been given more powers, and they've had an increase in budgets. SIRC, as a review body, has what

Public Safety committee  I wouldn't necessarily say that it took 10 years to uncover. I think it took less than that as we went through our research cycle, as we brought it to committee, as we brought those recommendations to CSIS, and as it was then published in the annual report. There were a lot of ac

Public Safety committee  I wouldn't necessarily guess to that, because at the end of the day we had a disagreement with CSIS. We gave them the recommendation. We thought there was an issue. They did not think there was an issue. They did not follow our recommendation. It turned out that it was an issue.

Public Safety committee  Potentially it would feed up, depending on the operational nature, and so on.

Public Safety committee  That's a good question, and let me begin with our unfettered access to information, minus cabinet confidence. I always have to say that. We tend to do review of past operations, or historical review, and that does not hamper a typical ongoing operation of those sorts of things. W

Public Safety committee  It's not something necessarily that I'm proposing, other than to state that we're part of the accountability framework.

Public Safety committee  I find it interesting the way you phrased that.

Public Safety committee  Right now, our budget is roughly $2.5 million on a yearly basis. As you probably know, we have capacity funding for this fiscal year that pretty much doubles our budget this year.

Public Safety committee  Roughly $5 million, yes.

Public Safety committee  Oh, I'm sorry. Our standard if you want to call it A base, or our standard budget, is in the order of $2.5 million to $3 million.

Public Safety committee  Operating budget. We received capacity funding—

Public Safety committee  That means additional funds. I'm sorry. This year, we have additional funds in the order of $2.5 million.

Public Safety committee  That's for expert review, to increase our ability to review CSIS. Those funds will expire at the end of March 2017. We're currently working diligently to have capacity funding extended past this fiscal year.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  It has hampered us in the sense that in our post-9/11 era, our intelligence agencies are working much more closely together, and they co-operate much more than they have in the past. As they're co-operating more, we cannot follow the thread of information when it goes from CSIS t