Information & Ethics committee  It is an excellent point, because it is challenging to find the best and the brightest to come and work on our team. It is something we take pride in doing. We make extensive use of student and other outreach programs across the country to reach into universities and bring in wha

Information & Ethics committee  Let me just correct one thing before I hand it on to André for a great answer. We investigate foreign actors and their intentions to discover them, not simply if they are brought to our attention. I apologize if I misspoke there. I'll hand it over to André. One of the benefits o

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. I want to be clear, so I will answer in English, if that's okay with you. If I understand correctly, your question is whether a foreign actor can come into Canada and masquerade as a Canadian. Technology—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. The answer is that yes, technology does allow foreign actors to masquerade as Canadian or otherwise. Our intention is to look at the foreign actor and try to find out whether they are attempting to do that, so that we can pass information on to, for example, the cyber centr

Information & Ethics committee  Under the current mandate for CSE, our authorities are limited to intelligence collection. There are provisions in Bill C-59, which the Senate is currently considering. If that bill is passed, we may have more authorities in the future.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  That's a great question, thank you. We are recruiting, so anyone who's listening is welcome to send through a resumé.

Information & Ethics committee  From my perspective, I can't comment on the overall views of the clerk, but what I can say is that from a national security perspective we do cover those sorts of threats. I would also just add for clarity that it's certainly not within our role to decide what is true and false

Information & Ethics committee  I can say from CSE's point of view that we are mandated to look exclusively at foreign actors outside of Canada by law, so that's where we focus exclusively our foreign intelligence mandate, unless we're working at the request of CSIS under our assistance mandate. With that, I ca

Information & Ethics committee  I can comment on that, too. I should say that the SITE task force the minister mentioned brings together CSE, CSIS, RCMP and Global Affairs Canada and, of course, CSIS and the RCMP will have the domestic mandate to do threat investigations within their mandates. That's going to

Information & Ethics committee  I can try to address the question. There are a couple of elements that I might suggest highlighting. One of those is that it's much easier to respond to something when we have good information and intelligence closer to the time. As we are continuing our work with the security

Information & Ethics committee  It's a good question, and part of it is a hypothetical. One of the things I can say is, if we are to look at the foreign end of that, if we can find the intentions, plans or any sort of capability being created to create that sort of account within Canada and see the foreign pers

Information & Ethics committee  From the foreign intelligence perspective, we're looking at foreign actors outside of Canada and what their intentions might be toward Canada. One of the things we can do to help inform the cyber centre or help other elements of the Government of Canada to respond is to see those

Information & Ethics committee  What I can say, from the national security and foreign intelligence perspective, is that, although a lot of what we've talked about today is in the cyberspace, of course we look for threats of all kinds that might be directed toward Canadians, whether that's terrorism, cyber-atta

Information & Ethics committee  It is part of our lawful mandate to look only at foreign threats outside of Canada. A Canadian company engaging in any type of behaviour would not be within our mandate in the foreign intelligence side to investigate, but there may be other entities in Canada where that would be