Public Safety committee  That will be detailed in our written submissions. For now, what I feel comfortable putting on the record is that we're not comfortable with ministerial authorization alone.

Public Safety committee  Certainly, we know that allied intelligence agencies have engaged in the past in activities meant to interfere with or undermine encryption on anonymity tools. I think we should be concerned about those types of operations, not just in the course of the testing and infrastructure

Public Safety committee  Right. It's responsible disclosure to ensure that where CSE finds vulnerabilities and where it's appropriate in the public interest to do so, that they are disclosed responsibly in order to protect privacy interests as well as expression interests. This is not just about privacy

Public Safety committee  That's something we hope to detail more explicitly in our written submission. We are concerned about that. The word “incidentally” is defined but the limitation of not directing is not defined anywhere in the act, and that's a concern that experts, including Bill Robinson, have

Public Safety committee  We are concerned about the ability to extend by the one-year period, but we think it's important that where there's a significant change in the scope of the authorization, it be brought to the commissioner's attention. We think that's important. We want to also raise that the a

Public Safety committee  Sorry, Mr. Chair, may I have an opportunity to respond to that question as well?

Public Safety committee  I would love to. Thank you for the opportunity. The question was about how Canada's cybersecurity can be improved. I would like to draw the committee's attention to the active and defensive cyber-operations aspects of CSE's mandate, that have been added in proposed sections 20 a

Public Safety committee  My apologies.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. The government has failed to demonstrate why this publicly available information exception as worded is necessary or proportionate, or what risks it's meant to mitigate in the first place. The CSE has identified a need to access reports on the global infrastructure a

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, another deeply problematic aspect of Bill C-51 that has not been touched are changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that undid important protections for named persons in security certificate proceedings. Bill C-51 limited the requirement for disclosure o