Public Safety committee I strongly believe that.
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee Do you mean the threat reduction measures?
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee Oh, yes. As you know, we have the responsibility to review those threat reduction measures every year. I would say it's so far a success. It shows an issue that was raised earlier in the discussion about being proactive, because I think it was new, and it's successful. So far, so
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee Well, I will be careful—
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee —with my answer. What I would say is we have a charter. The charter has—and people forget that from time to time—section 1, which allows somehow going against the charter or excuses going against the charter. What is most important is that when the service or anybody has to act i
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee As you know, we have already been in contact for decades with our five particular allies, the Five Eyes. As you may remember, we welcomed those partners earlier, in late September. They came over here. We have regular meetings with them to adapt our approach and to be more effici
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee Excuse me...?
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee No, not really. It will be case by case. We will see how it works.
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee Sorry; which number are you referring to?
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee It's referring to section 39?
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee Are you talking about the quorum?
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee We try to have a level playing field so that the level will be the same for everybody. It's important that people who are going through national security issues in the context of being a witness.... We had problems in the past. There were a couple of cases that went to court rega
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee I cannot remember any case in which we were worried more about not having access to other departments than about having confidential documents. It's not really a problem. I think it's accepted that this is the law of the land.
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais
Public Safety committee I don't think Global Affairs Canada is entirely exempt.
February 6th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Blais