Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Iacono. About 20 pages of the report provide a detailed description of incidents, approaches and specific cases in Canada and abroad. I cannot speak to anything other than what is in the report. A lot of the information is classified, apart from

Public Safety committee  The first thing I should make clear is that cultural and ethnocultural communities are themselves targeted by foreign actors. They are often victims in Canada, and the Canadian government has a duty to protect those people—let's not forget. In our report, we recommend a whole-of

Public Safety committee  There are a few things. The important thing, I think, to remember first off is that NSICOP is not so much an oversight committee as it is a review committee. In this we differ from our American counterparts and are more in line with our other Five Eyes partners, whether that's

Public Safety committee  Thank you. As committee members may know, in 2019 cabinet passed a directive creating a five-person committee to be seized with activities during the 2019 election and basically be the recipient of information. This is a committee chaired by the Clerk. It was to be seized with t

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'll do my very best to try to accommodate you and other colleagues. Good afternoon, colleagues. Thank you for allowing us to be here. We're very pleased to have this opportunity to discuss the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Pa

Public Safety committee  I don't think we're in a position to give you much more insight, given the classified information that backs up that paragraph.

Public Safety committee  Yes. The NSICOP has a plan to do exactly this kind of follow-up. We are really pleased to be here today, and perhaps be invited to the Senate later, to address your counterparts there. We think this is a good start to raise awareness among parliamentarians at the very least.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Dubé.

Public Safety committee  When we undertook the intelligence priority setting review, we did it because we wanted to be, so to speak, at the top of the crow's nest for the country, examining the overall architecture of security and intelligence, while at the same time getting into the engine room, to see

Public Safety committee  We might, but right now we're only two years or so into the five-year mandate, and I think it's going to be interrupted a bit with an election campaign in the fall—

Public Safety committee  I think the committee would say that five years is an appropriate moment, but we're certainly carrying forward some of these areas, and as we practise and get more experience, I think we'll have more to say and perhaps more suggestions for improvement.

Public Safety committee  That's an excellent and really difficult question. I'm going to deflect it to a certain extent by letting you know that again this year, 2019, one of the major reviews we're undertaking is a special review of the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces. We're

Public Safety committee  I think it has. I mentioned earlier that one of the immediate effects of examining intelligence activities at the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces is that for the first time ever, the department set up a unit within to respond to outside review, to pul

Public Safety committee  Did you say paragraph 265?

Public Safety committee  I think Ms. Marcoux is best placed to answer that question, because she is dealing with her colleagues inside these departments and agencies on a regular basis.