Public Safety committee  Yes. I feel like I'm on Jeopardy.

Public Safety committee  Further changes.

Public Safety committee  My answer is yes, and there's more work to be done. It never stops at one particular piece of legislation.

Public Safety committee  I would just add very briefly that probably the ideal thing would be to have a balance between legislative direction and regulation in detail. I think one of the things that Bill C-59 does in particular through its accountability provisions is to ensure that if that combination o

Public Safety committee  Mr. Motz, I greatly appreciate the opportunity. I'll be very brief on this. I think these are very important issues and of course no piece of legislation, as sweeping as it might be, is going to capture them all, but there's lots of work to be done to truly modernize Canadian int

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. I will do that.

Public Safety committee  Briefly I would say that once upon a time, going back to 1984 and the passage of the CSIS Act, Canada was a bit of a global leader in terms of providing for accountability for security and intelligence, albeit in a relatively limited realm. That was augmented when the CSE commiss

Public Safety committee  Sure. Very briefly, I think it's absolutely vital. In an earlier draft of my remarks to the committee, I was going to cite some examples where additional eyes on issues like this might have been helpful. I'll just take advantage of this moment to say that “thanks” to the Snowde

Public Safety committee  I'll begin. I think both Craig and I have commented publicly on the ministerial directives. I would say first of all that the current ministerial directive that was recently released is a great advance on the original versions in 2011, which I think were very problematic in ter

Public Safety committee  Let me just respond very briefly to this, Mr. Dubé. I think one thing that's not entirely clear in the legislation is.... My understanding would be that any extension of a current authorization would only occur at the request of what is now called the chief of CSE, a title that

Public Safety committee  There are a couple of things. One is that false positives are a regrettable reality, I suppose, of any list of this kind, whether it's a Canadian list or a list composed by our allies. An effort has to be made to try to ensure that the number of false positives are as small as p

Public Safety committee  Not completely, Monsieur Paul-Hus, and I think perhaps the government would recognize that. It's creating a different circumstance in which the minister has to respond to appeals for redress. That's a small fix, but the real fix goes beyond the legislation and is contained in ste

Public Safety committee  Both Craig and I have testified previously on Bill C-22, and my view is that it's important to be realistic about what is proposed in C-22 as a practice, and what is necessary. Any time you give a committee of parliamentarians access to highly sensitive information, you have to s

Public Safety committee  Sure, just very briefly. I would say, just in a slightly broader context, that the world of intelligence collection and national security protections that we live in now is one that absolutely requires intelligence agencies around the world to engage in the collection of datasets

Public Safety committee  Just briefly, I would say something very similar but expressed slightly differently, which is that in my view, Bill C-51 had good elements and bad elements. I think that was also the Liberal Party's position, frankly, when it was the third party in opposition, that there were som