Public Safety committee  There are two responses to that. In the first place, that is a very proactive military solution or militaristic-style solution, which is fundamentally not what we're hearing from our community as the approach they're looking at. It might look and feel different because it's being

Public Safety committee  I think the idea that we need to keep up with everyone else is what has gotten us here in the first place. That's the challenge we're facing. Just because other countries are doing it doesn't mean we have to. I think CSE already has immense powers around hacking and disruption, a

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, I see that point. I think that we are focusing so much on trying to get them before they get us that we're failing to recognize where we're weak, where we're vulnerable. We are also ignoring some of the powers we already have. Of course, I agree that if our health inf

Public Safety committee  One of our concerns, beyond just intergovernmental, inter-Canadian departmental information-sharing, is how that feeds into the Five Eyes network and all the different agencies within it. I think the DEA providing information to the RCMP is a great example of that. I think one o

Public Safety committee  Yes, but I think Tim may have more to say on that.

Public Safety committee  I would just add that the shifting definition of datasets, the different interpretations of datasets, comes back to the bigger question that we keep revisiting: if it's difficult for the government to understand, it's really difficult for citizens to understand what it means. Ult

Public Safety committee  We would agree.

Public Safety committee  We definitely have big concerns about the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act that was enabled by Bill C-51 not really being revised or overhauled in the way we had hoped. One of the big changes that we would look for is limiting the information requested to those who requ

Public Safety committee  The majority of comments that were received—in fact, almost the entirety of the comments that the OpenMedia community submitted—were not asking for us to compromise our privacy. I think that we say in the consultation results that over 80% of submissions asked to increase our ind

Public Safety committee  I'm not clear on exactly which contribution of ours you're quoting, but our concern is that we don't have strong enough protections internally to prevent ourselves from cyber-attack, making Canadians and Canada's databases vulnerable. In addition, we do not believe that we should

Public Safety committee  I think the concern with incidental information is that the non-incidental, the critical information, in a lot of cases already feels too broad. The ability to keep that incidental information—to first define it, and then also retain it—is quite challenging for us as citizens, fo

Public Safety committee  Yes. We're actively campaigning on both sides of the border to increase privacy at the border for cellphones, because so much information is available on them.

Public Safety committee  I think that one of the things that are important to address is that they cannot be sure and that there will be some spying on Canadians. When that information is identified as being Canadians' data or information being collected, it's immediately treated otherwise, but those pro

Public Safety committee  Just to make sure I'm clear, are you asking about our campaigns that we run in the United States?

Public Safety committee  We have a community of supporters of almost 200,000 people within the United States who are active in their own government's activities. It is those supporters—