Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. Good morning, Madam Chair and members of the committee. My name is Cherie Henderson and I am the assistant director of requirements for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. I am joined today by my colleague, Newton Shortliffe, the assistant director of collect

Public Safety committee  Yes, this sort of legislation could help us, because it then allows us access to greater volumes of information, but what we would need to do is ensure that any sort of legislation on this front also respects the privacy of Canadians, because we want to ensure that any investigat

Public Safety committee  That's a very good question, and thank you very much. When we are looking at paragraph 2(c) of our act, we are looking at any sort of individual who wants to engage in serious violent activity in order to pursue a specific objective, and that can be a political objective. When

Public Safety committee  Yes, we're very concerned about attacks on our critical infrastructure. As you can imagine, when a critical infrastructure attack happens—and I would even point you to an attack against a health care system and what happened in Newfoundland—how that impacts lives of everyday Cana

Public Safety committee  I can't go into the specifics of what we do in an investigation, just to ensure that we can protect our methods, but I can say that we certainly do look at these, and we use all of our investigative powers.

Public Safety committee  I can't go into the specifics of an investigation.

Public Safety committee  That would not be under us. That would be with the local police of jurisdiction.

Public Safety committee  What I would say is that I am not familiar with the intricacies of what's happening in regard to the police investigation. What we are trying to do is to make sure that we can get out there. We're aware of where the ransomware attack is coming from, so we can try to help with som

Public Safety committee  Perhaps I can start. As you are all very well aware, the CSIS Act was created back in 1984, and the threat environment has changed dramatically since then. When the act was created, there was no awareness of where technology would be today, so the service definitely needs to have

Public Safety committee  Another spot would even be the ability to share information beyond the federal government. Under section 19 of our act, we can only really share information—

Public Safety committee  Yes, you're right. Back in 2016, I think it was, we did take down our investigation on what we were terming “right-wing extremism”. After the attack at the mosque in Quebec, we again really highlighted the threat of what we have now termed “ideologically motivated violent extremi

Public Safety committee  As the director and I have noted, we have moved resources. About 50% of our CT resources have moved into that last year.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. Today, right now, we are faced with threats from all across the spectrum, and we look at what we term “ideologically motived violent extremism,” which we're here to speak about today, as well as religiously motivated violent extremism. In the servic

Public Safety committee  —variety of groups. It is across various spheres. Those are the two biggest threats on the terrorism side that we're facing these days.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. What I will say is that the service is always extremely concerned with any violent form of extremist activity. In this case, it had already gone into the criminal realm, so the RCMP may have further comments. What we are always doing is trying to ge