Information & Ethics committee  I guess at first blush what I would answer is that it is important and vital to have a balance between security measures on the one hand and the protection of the privacy of Canadians on the other hand. I know that this objective is not easily attained, but I think this is what i

Information & Ethics committee  To be very honest, I'm not....

Information & Ethics committee  I think we are, with all due respect, wandering away a little bit from SCISA, but anyway. With regard to CSE, CSE has arrangements, or MOUs, with the Five Eyes partners—that's evident—but again what is important in those arrangements and MOUs is the fact that CSE stressed the po

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, there is.

Information & Ethics committee  In our case, as I think I mentioned previously, if the information that is gathered by CSE doesn't meet the criteria set out in the National Defence Act, it will be destroyed. They cannot keep it.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not able to say, I guess.

Information & Ethics committee  The short answer is in Justice O’Connor's report. He has studied in depth having one super-agency versus keeping the existing agencies as they are. As an example, with regard to CSE or the Office of the CSE commissioner, Justice O'Connor has stated that it should not be included

Information & Ethics committee  If I may, I'll comment on your question. I think maybe one way to do it would be to incorporate into the act a provision that any information that is not relevant, which is the threshold used presently in the act, should be destroyed. This is not built into the act right now. In

Information & Ethics committee  Just to answer your first point with regard to the possibility for review bodies to carry out joint work, right now we can't do that, as noted by my colleague. We work in silos. This is not adequate. I have stated in the past that it would be desirable to give the existing revie

Information & Ethics committee  With regard to the 14 institutions, as I said previously, in my view it's important that they be subject to expert review one way or the other, or the committee of parliamentarians could decide that they want to do that themselves. It's up to them to decide that, but I still beli

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members. I am pleased to appear before this committee on the subject of the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act. As the chair has mentioned, I am accompanied by Mr. Bill Galbraith, the executive director of my office. Before I make a

Public Safety committee  Well, I suspect that this is why we are called expert review bodies. We have experts who work for us. I agree with you that it's not always easy to understand what CSE is doing and, believe me, I was appointed three years ago and I'm still trying to understand exactly, in all the

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I think one of the principal challenges to restore and enhance public trust will be transparency. The committee and also the expert review bodies must strive to provide as much information as possible to Parliament and to the public in general, so that there can be a better under

Public Safety committee  Yes, that is something to consider. That is the power to subpoena persons to appear with documents, known as duces tecum, as you said.