National Defence committee  Just to reassure you, all recommendations that were made for the last 10 or 15 years with regard to privacy have been accepted. With regard to the other recommendations, I think 94% of all the recommendations that I and my predecessors have made have been accepted.

National Defence committee  I mean all the recommendations in general. Normally the recommendations would be indicated in the annual report. There is a summary indicated in the annual report. As I said, 93% or 94% of all the recommendations over the last 15 years have been accepted by the minister and by th

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  Yes, I do.

National Defence committee  I think it's both. Yes. If you look at the last annual report, you'll see that I discuss that. As I said, the classified reports are not public. They are sent to the minister, but there's also mention in the public report that I submit every year to Parliament.

National Defence committee  We do. As I said in my opening remarks, that's the reason we exist.

National Defence committee  This is one of the reasons we exist.

National Defence committee  As I say, the Five Eyes are not supposed to spy on each other's citizens. They have arrangements. MOUs do exist in that regard between those countries. If this were to happen and I were aware of it, I would investigate it. But as I said—

National Defence committee  No. Again, we have to bear in mind, also, that each of those countries are sovereign countries. At some point in time they might decide to do otherwise.

National Defence committee  Yes. That's a fact of life.

National Defence committee  As you might know, CSE cannot target Canadians or persons in Canada. It's a foreign agency.

National Defence committee  Yes. Let's say CSE targets a foreign fighter in Syria. In doing that, they might unintentionally or incidentally—

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  No. This is where the minister, through an authorization, would permit them to do it. Otherwise, they would commit a criminal offence, under the Criminal Code of Canada. It's a private communication, so therefore— Sorry, sir.

National Defence committee  That's why I talk about transparency. For the last three years, I've been pushing and pushing and pushing CSE to release more information and to give more explanations to the Canadian public about their activities. If you don't do that, it's pretty hard to maintain public trust.