Public Safety committee  The provision we're aiming for would not be to suspend the application of the authorization until the IC has looked at it. It would proceed with this authorization immediately, but the review ex post facto would be to ensure that the decision that was made was reasonable. It has

Public Safety committee  As of now, the definition does cover information that you can buy. Some have expressed the position that it should not be covered. PIPEDA, for instance, the legislation we have in Canada, does not cover that type of information for it to be part of the publicly available informat

Public Safety committee  Clause 27 of the current bill concerns gathering foreign intelligence. Clause 28 concerns cybersecurity. Clause 31 concerns active measures, as you said earlier. Active measures, as defined in the law, are not meant to apply to gathering intelligence. We are not supposed to inter

Public Safety committee  Mr. Picard, I would add that Parliament gives itself the legislation that it wants to give itself. Bill C-44, which clarified the mandate of CSIS to act externally, also gave federal court judges the power to authorize activities abroad. This is something we would not have seen

Public Safety committee  Yes. Essentially, we had a look at the legislation of four other countries. Our understanding, subject to the review of others, is that it's mainly aimed at defence activities and at providing assistance to other agencies. Proposed section 31 provides for the ability of CSE to d

Public Safety committee  If I may just add, the role would be a similar one. Reviewing and approving would be the same scheme as the other authorizations, basically. You would look at the facts presented to ministers and you would look at the factors in the statute that would be required for the decision

Public Safety committee  Essentially, they're not the level of detail that we provided, because we based it on the U.K. legislation, but the idea is the same. Basically it would enable the minister to make a decision in exigent circumstances, but that would be reviewed within five days by the commissione

Public Safety committee  Actually, especially in the first few years, I think reasons would be helpful in enabling the agencies to see where the commissioner is coming from in the way of thinking within the reasonableness process.