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National Defence committee It was to inquire whether or not any of the changes, the executive orders, in the United States will have an impact on CSE sharing with its allies. The commissioner received assurances from the chief. We have written and requested evidence from CSE that the long-standing agreemen
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee What metadata could include might be a question you would want to ask CSE for the details of. Metadata can include identity information. Not all metadata necessarily carries a privacy interest. That is what we're looking for when we're conducting a review of CSE's activities. I
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee I have a point of clarification, sir. For the classified reports that the commissioner signs that go to the minister, the annual report is made up of an unclassified version of those classified reports. Recommendations that will be included in a classified report to the minister,
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee If I could, Chair, the reviews that we conduct.... The questions that you're asking would be well directed to CSE to provide—
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee We will review the activities of CSE. The commissioner has no jurisdiction, of course, to review the activities of NSA or GCHQ, or the Australian or New Zealand equivalents. But we do have the ability to ensure that whatever activity CSE is conducting and the interceptions they a
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee Thank you, Commissioner. Part of our task in the commissioner's office is to ensure that we are staying abreast and up to date on what is happening within CSE. We do that through the reviews we're conducting, through briefings we request from CSE in specific areas, and through d
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee The latest departmental plan for the office, which we're required to submit to Treasury Board, indicates that the commissioner will be requesting an increase in the resource base. That, of course, is not a large amount of money, but the commissioner frequently asks me if I have e
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee Rather than stating whether or not there have been improvements, the reviews we conduct on CSE's relationship with its partners look at it from the Canadian perspective and Canadian laws. The agreement is that the Five Eyes partners will respect the laws of the country in terms o
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee There was a recommendation that the commissioner made to the minister to provide direction to CSE regarding his expectations for protection of privacy with respect to information that is shared with CSE's partners. We are monitoring that in terms of CSE's development. Obviously,
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee We have access to the agreements between the Five Eyes. CSE has shared those with us, so we're able to see what in fact they have agreed to. Our reviews will look at whether CSE is complying with it and what assurances they are obtaining from their partners that they are complyin
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
National Defence committee If there were a question raised in an agreement that the commissioner believed compromised privacy or something, he would make a point of that.
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
Public Safety committee If you're on holiday in Scotland, CSE would be able to intercept a communication involving you only if they were targeting a foreign entity abroad. All the other privacy protections that apply would be there, and that's what the commissioner would be looking at. On a question l
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
Public Safety committee In terms of whether or not we have adequate resources, the transitional clauses in the bill are quite clear. What we have in terms of the commissioner, the employees, and the appropriation from Parliament all transition to become the intelligence commissioner and his office. Wha
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith
Public Safety committee We are studying all of the aspects and following the development of the committee of parliamentarians. We are meeting with CSIS and CSE with respect to how they're preparing and, to the extent that we can, we are keeping abreast of their work in developing the new authorities tha
January 30th, 2018Committee meeting
J. William Galbraith