Public Safety committee  Good question, Mike.

Public Safety committee  All right. The question I'd like to ask the minister is this: Is anyone from your department going to check with our American counterparts? As brought up by my colleagues across from me, they will choose the wording, whether it's “Were you ever arrested?” or “Were you ever in

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Mr. Broom, once a person applies for a simple possession pardon—or whatever we're going to call it—and you've looked at it, what do you do? How do you get rid of it?

Public Safety committee  A guy goes through the whole process. You have the document in front of you and you feel it's justified. What do you do?

Public Safety committee  No, I've already said that. You're wasting time. Everything is good. How do you get rid of the record?

Public Safety committee  You're talking about a mechanical thing. The minister spoke about a mechanical thing. Why couldn't you sit down with 100 people and go through the criminal records in Canada, take those things, send them to the RCMP and tell them to get rid of them? You're saying it's simple pos

Public Safety committee  You're telling me the system really isn't going to change very much because you still have to do your CPIC check, your investigation, other things. What's changing from the way it is right now?

Public Safety committee  But Mr. Minister, he says now he's going to check CPIC. They're going to have to check their records to make sure that the—

Public Safety committee  You were talking about security along with Mr. Dubé. At your company, which works a lot with many government agencies, what security level do you look at for your people, or do you have to get them a secret or a top secret level?

Public Safety committee  You seem to be a little on the negative side. There seems to be a lot of.... I used to do top secret investigations for security clearances, and a lot of work is involved in them. But you think that we should be reducing our level or our standard?

Public Safety committee  More consistency?

Public Safety committee  There's no standard with a national set of rules that you have to meet to get to a certain level?

Public Safety committee  Okay. I have one quick question; I think I've got about two minutes left?

Public Safety committee  You spoke briefly about artificial intelligence. I've studied it in a couple of different committees other than this one. Do you think that in time artificial intelligence will be able to do cybersecurity better than we can do it personally ourselves right now?

Public Safety committee  You don't want to feed them so much.