Procedure and House Affairs committee  This leads me to a second question. Of course, I heard what you said about wanting to call the police and hoping that it would be addressed. The concern, of course, is that we now know MPs were being targeted, and they didn't know for an extensive amount of time. It's hard to re

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you so much to the chair. As always, everything that I say goes through the chair. Minister, thank you so much for being with us today. I think public trust is the very essence of what we're discussing. That is why the NDP put forward a motion that said every party has to

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I have a brief comment before I ask a question. I heard what you said earlier about a public inquiry. I agree that this discussion has become far too partisan, which is part of the reason the NDP feels it's important to have a person leading this process who is select

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. You mentioned—and I just want to clarify—during your initial testimony that there will be new staff coming in for intelligence review and to provide advice. That seems to be one of the gaps. That advice has not necessarily been provided. I'm trying to understand the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that. One of the things we're trying to figure out.... I understand now that you're saying MPs will be briefed immediately. My question is around the threshold level. We've heard again and again that sometimes the threshold level is far too high and it doesn't real

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. You mentioned earlier that Mr. Wernick had suggested that the government should legislate the position, and you said that you thought that five years might be a little too long, which is fine. You also spoke about how other countries give this role a bit more

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry, but I want to interrupt you on that. I apologize. I'm not talking about your accountability. I think what Mr. Wernick was saying was that by legislating it, there would be a formal process of accountability that would track the exchange between information given and

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. I want to go back to the discussion we had about the fact that you gave the example of being away on leave for a month and there was information and nobody was there to read it, so it was a bit of a black hole. I'm just wondering if you could explain if that's

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, hopefully you got most of that question, but I know that my friend did not, so I will repeat it. I'm just trying to get clarification. What we heard from your testimony is that you were on leave for a month. During that time there was information provided, and it sort of f

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Then what I'm hearing you say to me is that things can get lost. That's what worries me. Again, I go back to that point. We're talking about a point of privilege for a member of this place who did not know the circumstances in which he was living. Really, that's how I perceive it

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. I thank you, Ms. Thomas, for being here with us today. I'm listening and really trying to wrap my head around this, because this is incredibly serious. The impacts are profoundly concerning. The way in which people are learning and the timeline on which they a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry. I have only a few more minutes. I guess that your answer is, yes, we've fixed the problem. I'm really interested in seeing how that works. I don't know if you're going to tell us as clearly as I was hoping you would. You keep saying as well that you can account...and

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I understand that, but we're actually talking about a point of privilege, so I think it's important that we stay clear on that. Was there any passing on...? Again, it feels like this was a bit of a surprise. Emails were sent out to ministers. They didn't know how to open the ema

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you so much, Madam Chair. I'm going to ask Mr. German a question. He spoke a lot about money laundering and moving money, and that is a particularly interesting aspect of this whole discussion. I understand that one of the challenges we have been hearing about repeatedly i