Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. It's because, as I said before, as frustrating as it is for all of us, I can't get into confirming, let alone denying, information and going beyond the bounds of the security heads who were here before me.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can't speak to specific pieces of information. As you know, I was not the cleared representative during the campaign. I'm sorry—that's through the chair. The member knows I was not the cleared representative during the campaign, but in terms of what I have been briefed on subse

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I said in my opening statement, I ask a lot of questions in a lot of meetings. Sometimes my name also gets attached to things even when they're not coming directly from me. I have learned that over time. While I can't speak to the specifics of this memo for the reasons I've s

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, my previous answer stands for that question as well.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I don't. I think there's a lot of.... I've seen this, obviously, at times, but not as much as I think we would all like, which is to bring this into a non-partisan arena or even a multipartisan arena. That's the interesting thing in terms of some of the mechanisms that are

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a couple of things on that. I believe the minister has already spoken to the fact that the individual you're talking about was not a co-chair of her campaign. I can't get into, as I've said before, the specifics of what you're describing, whether or not it happened and

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Memos usually don't make those recommendations. That might be helpful for you to know.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I would encourage the members, if they have questions on Minister Ng and her local campaigns, to raise them with her. I believe she's on the public record already on these questions. I'm not sure things were laid out the way I understand them by the member in terms

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, yes, I do.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I would take you and the members back to what I said in my opening statement. Even what we share between other cleared individuals within government is something that we have to be incredibly sensitive and careful about. Threat reduction measures, if they are deemed

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I said in my opening statement, when we'll go off into a SCIF, it's usually a group of people. As the NSIA wrote in her memo, she is almost always there, and sometimes there will be other senior officials there, as she deems appropriate, depending upon what we're talking about

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Largely I would defer to the experts through our peppering them with questions, which we do a lot of, as I said earlier. That can sometimes lead to even more of a need to have them.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I consider them to be the heads of our security agencies and the experts they will sometimes bring with them, like an expert who specializes in a particular region in the world, for example, or who specializes in a certain form of intelligence collection, or that kind of thing. T

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I would just like to start by saying that it was suggested perhaps that the member trusts Canadians and that this is somehow different from my own point of view on things. I just want to say that it is exactly because I trust Canadians that I do what I do and that I

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was a new thing going into 2019, and there was a review done of it. The review was made public. It was also studied by NSICOP, and NSICOP determined that the SITE task force and the protocol had fulfilled their mandate. However, there were some lessons learned that came out of