Public Safety committee  Our senior management is on GEDS and information about us is on InfoBase, which is a TBS website that carries some of this information.

Public Safety committee  No, that's correct. I guess the other thing to underscore is that, again, these activities are in furtherance of our mandate. I think there's an important thing to underscore here, and it's something we haven't had the opportunity to talk about much yet. Keep in mind that some

Public Safety committee  If I may, I answered incompletely a previous question about what changes for us under this legislation. We talked about mandates and other things. The accountability and review measures build upon the existing robust measures we've had to date with the CSE commissioner, but that

Public Safety committee  I know that Doug is here more in the policy capacity than a charter expert capacity, so I'm happy to address that. There are a couple of things to keep in mind. One, again, is that it will be reviewed for lawfulness. With the ministerial authorizations that we will have or will

Public Safety committee  Yes. We are a stand-alone agency, under the portfolio of the Minister of National Defence, and that is within the bill itself, as I mentioned.

Public Safety committee  In terms of, just as we are, as a stand-alone agency, is there a change in that?

Public Safety committee  No. Obviously, in terms of the mandate additions, that would be new, but in terms of how we function within the defence portfolio, that remains the same. In fact, this legislation has these housekeeping provisions in it. Before, we were a stand-alone agency by way of an order in

Public Safety committee  May I just add to that? I'm sorry, sir, but I didn't completely answer your last question.

Public Safety committee  Publicly available information is included in the definitions in part 3, so there is a specific definition.

Public Safety committee  You don't have the act in front of you, so I'll read it to you: publicly available information means information that has been published or broadcast for public consumption, is accessible to the public on the global information infrastructure or otherwise or is available to th

Public Safety committee  I would just say that, where there is that reasonable expectation of privacy, any information that we use... If there's any element of, say, information notwithstanding the publicly available information definition and those elements, if there is anything that hits that trigger o

Public Safety committee  No. I think it's been covered. I guess the only thing that I would clarify is that our legislation uses the terms “active” and “defensive”. The term “offensive” or what might constitute something that's more in the military space would be something under the authorities and remit

Public Safety committee  There are a few things. One is to make clear that this element is actually making explicit something that occurs now with respect to CSE. We use infrastructure information, which, as the legislation states, can be linked to an identifiable Canadian. We do that to understand the

Public Safety committee  I would add that the capability exists with CSE now. One of the reasons National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces have been added to our assistance mandate is that should they engage in cyber operations in support of government-approved military operations, they could levera

Public Safety committee  We are subject to the charter, and not all the elements of the charter are here. All legislation and activities are subject to the charter. As to where we interfere with the reasonable expectation of privacy, right now we operate under the understanding that any kind of informati