Public Safety committee  As part of its mandate, CSIS provides security-related advice to the Government of Canada, to various departments. That would include the Department of Foreign Affairs or Global Affairs Canada. That process would involve that information being passed on to Global Affairs Canada,

Public Safety committee  It would depend on the nature of the information.

Public Safety committee  It's case by case, yes.

Public Safety committee  Again, it depends on the nature of the information. Not everything is briefed up, obviously. It's at the discretion of our director, generally, as to what gets briefed up.

Public Safety committee  For operational reasons, I would prefer not to.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. I am going to answer in English if you don't mind. CSIS needs to be equipped to respond to any urgent threat with all of the tools that we have at our disposal. Ensuring that the proposed verify word legislation is responsive to exigent circumstances