Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a very interesting question.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a very important question to dissect a bit. When we collect any piece of intelligence, we are trying to build a picture, so every piece of intelligence is assessed on its own merit. In some cases, we will have a very solid source that we receive that information from, an

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The requirement would be that we would send it to the department and we would then note on the note that this is to be shared with a particular individual. It could be the minister, it could be the minister's chief of staff or it could be the deputy minister. They do not have ac

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, it is not normally. The IMU notes were originally designed in order to inform Public Safety and PCO. Recently we broadened that, and we look at it, as Director Vigneault has indicated, based on the need to know. If there is something within a document that they need to know,

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We established issues management notes probably back in 2015, about that period of time. The intention was, because we have a very robust process for sharing intelligence and, as Mr. Vigneault has indicated, we have what we call a raw intelligence product and we have an intellige

Procedure and House Affairs committee  One thing that is important to understand is how the dissemination of the sensitive information works. It is not like a regular email back and forth. We have a very tightly controlled top secret system, which allows us to send information. Within our own organization, our full o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely. Thank you very much. I think it was a very important point that we were discussing, which was raised by the member, Madam Chair. What I wanted to pick up on was the point made in regard to that ongoing communication. When we go out and provide those defensive briefin

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. There are no simple questions in this. I appreciate that. I would say that one thing we haven't spoken about too much—I think I mentioned it earlier—is that the service does engage its threat-reduction mandate. You will not be aware of that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is a very important question. I can honestly say that it's a very difficult balance to strike. Whenever we are doing assessments or sharing information, we are trying to look at what we can say that will still enable us to get the messaging across but also protect our sourc

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I noted earlier, another very beneficial tool would be the ability to use big data and crunch data, of course respecting the privacy of Canadians. We still need to be able to use the data to determine trends. It helps us get leads. It helps us set ourselves up in order to foll

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. I am in agreement with what my colleague Ms. Ducharme said, because we certainly see the benefit of this. We have provided our advice to government and policy-makers. We need to get it right when we do that. As Adam noted earlier, the conv

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. Again, I would go back to some of the comments I made earlier. We need to educate our MPs so they can potentially recognize they are being approached. The service has produced certain documents. One is called “FI and You”. I believe that's t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You will all be aware, of course, that five years ago we did Bill C-59. It had some very important additions to our act, but as I said, it's very old. Some nations do a regular review just to make sure it's all up to standard and can allow the agencies to engage and do what the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will say one thing, if I may. Another thing we need to look at within the act is our ability to use big data and crunch big data. We don't have that ability at this point.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. The service regularly provides intelligence assessments and intelligence reporting to the government to advise them of threats to national security under our act.