Public Safety committee  We haven't turned our minds to this question at all. We're not in a position at all to comment on the government's decision one way or the other. I think that's a question better put to the government itself and the minister.

Public Safety committee  As a general rule, the membership has agreed from the very beginning that we are extremely circumspect in any public comments, and generally we only comment on the merits of the work that we've done in the form of reports.

Public Safety committee  The work our committee has done. That's correct.

Public Safety committee  And those reports, of course, are unanimous.

Public Safety committee  Yes, one of the areas we're learning a lot about is this question of redaction and the redaction process. We have turned our minds to this, and we reserve the right, so to speak, to say more about it in due course. We're comparing and contrasting with other redaction processes—Au

Public Safety committee  I think the secret sauce in the work that we're doing is non-partisanship. If we learned how to work together in a more non-partisan fashion in many critical areas that we're facing as a country and as a planet—security being one, climate change being another—we might do better b

Public Safety committee  Thanks for pointing that out, Mr. Graham. We were struck early on in our steep learning curve about how little Canadians knew about the security and intelligence community in the country: who were the actors, what were their powers, how did they co-operate, how did they not co-o

Public Safety committee  Any federal actor involved in national security and intelligence falls under the mandate of NSICOP. We did not turn our minds to the sufficiency or insufficiency or perhaps over-sufficiency of the number of actors in the field so I can't comment on that.

Public Safety committee  Manoeuvrability, operational manoeuvrability. We wanted to capture in the report verbatim the submission made by DND for that very reason. We wanted Canadians to juxtapose what we think are the merits of proceeding or considering to proceed this way with a legislative basis and s

Public Safety committee  Yes, exactly.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. One of the things we've been hearing as a new committee as we interface with our colleagues in Australia, the United States, Britain, New Zealand, the Five Eyes and beyond, is that parliaments worldwide are struggling with this tension between the gr

Public Safety committee  That is a question that the members of the committee have discussed at length: how can we push a little harder and require the recommendations to be implemented? We are considering several possibilities. We have learned, for example, that the CSE carries over recommendations tha

Public Safety committee  Since we have had DND in our sights, they, for the first time in their history, have established a group of employees with the sole responsibility of processing all the information requested. That alone is progress.

Public Safety committee  I understand.