Information & Ethics committee  I'll just top that off. The nature of the information itself may sometimes not be self-evident. It's only when you put pieces of information together that the constellation of those pieces will begin to make sense from a national security perspective. That doesn't necessarily a

Information & Ethics committee  There are a number of ways in which we can get information. If SCISA allows a federal government department to share with us, it's their prerogative as to whether they do or not. If it's outside of the realm of an act of Parliament, then clearly it could be a constitutional issue

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, I can answer that question. The process is different for different agencies. For instance, we have arrangements with CSIS to exchange information, but what Ms. Whelan was referring to, I think, was the process by which we would use the Privacy Act requests under parag