Public Safety committee  It sometimes felt that way, if I'm honest.

Public Safety committee  He will be.

Public Safety committee  There is one thing I neglected to say. I did mean to congratulate the parliamentarians here. I can sometimes be a harsh critic of government, but I think the debate over this bill has been excellent, and I think the feedback on it has been constructive. As someone who observes th

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I think it speaks to the issue of how over even the last five years we have seen this transition to where everyone is talking about big data. I know that the intelligence services are also struggling with big data, and not just for the reaso

Public Safety committee  I appreciate it. I think you're saying it somewhat more eloquently than I did, but that's exactly it. The secretariat cannot be people who assemble briefing binders all the time. It has to be people who are actually knowledgeable about the intelligence cycle and process. I would

Public Safety committee  I don't know if this is the part where I'm supposed to suggest the Carleton Career Centre, but—

Public Safety committee  Right. I believe that increasingly what we're seeing is particularly a part of professional policy programs, with students who are trained in these kinds of activities: quantitative and qualitative methods in statistics. I believe you could look for individuals who have that kin

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. It's an issue that as a former analyst I feel very passionate about. Why I spoke to this issue is that intelligence analysis has tended to be a second thought in member organizations. These organizations are rightly focused on collecting intelligence

Public Safety committee  The parameters are wide, I would agree, but are people thinking about intelligence analysis? I raise this issue because I haven't seen it raised prominently yet by a number of commentators on the subject. I can understand that. There are great concerns about other aspects of th

Public Safety committee  I think that is a fair statement. To be fair, I'm not a lawyer, so speaking about the legalities is not my particular area. One of the things that I hope I conveyed in my talk today was that I want this committee, when looking at this bill, to not just look at the functions of ov

Public Safety committee  What they should be thinking about is talking to policy-makers and asking them how they are receiving the products. To be honest, we don't even know. As an analyst, I didn't know who was even receiving my products. Who is receiving the products? Who is using the products? Did the

Public Safety committee  It's the Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre.

Public Safety committee  They produce reports meant for the general public, but they also write very high-level documents as well. It's worth trying to find out how products were generated. Who was asking for them? Were they being used by more than one person? Were they all high-level products? Should we

Public Safety committee  I would hope for something else, something a little bit more, almost statutory in terms of the regulations. I see that it's here in terms of how it must submit to the Prime Minister a report of the reviews in the preceding year, but there's no timeline on this. I think it shoul

Public Safety committee  Yes.