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Public Safety committee As a first step, with the CSE, the government determines that in the area of national and international security, it is essential to give the CSE the previously mentioned authority for active and defensive powers. I think the mandate is very broad, and there may be implications
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Plouffe
Public Safety committee It's difficult for me to answer that question, because I don't know everything it implies, operationally speaking. However, from what I do know, since the CSE observes foreign entities, I imagine those concerned also considered that the Minister of Foreign Affairs should be invo
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Plouffe
Public Safety committee Could you summarize your question? I'm sorry; I didn't catch exactly what....
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Plouffe
Public Safety committee Do you mean with regard to CSE?
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Plouffe
Public Safety committee Well, according to the actual mandate, as well as the mandate that is provided for in Bill C-59, CSE cannot target Canadians or persons in Canada. It cannot. It can target people or entities abroad only.
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Plouffe
Public Safety committee Well, you're abroad.
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Plouffe
Public Safety committee Well, CSE cannot target Canadians. Go ahead, Bill.
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Plouffe
Public Safety committee In other words, in your example, it's only incidentally that your conversation would be intercepted, because maybe you are talking with somebody else abroad, another entity, and CSE wants to target that other entity, not you. If you happen to be there, this is what we call “incid
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Plouffe
Public Safety committee Mr. Normand will respond.
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Plouffe
Public Safety committee It's actually similar to what they have in the U.K. In other words, the operation is going on and proceeding for the maximum duration of five days, but let's say that in this particular case the IC could intervene after two days or three days, look at it, and say, “Well, I'm sorr
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Plouffe
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Plouffe