Canada-China Relations committee  That I cannot speak to in detail in an open forum.

Canada-China Relations committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, good afternoon. My name is Newton Shortliffe. I am the assistant director, collection, at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, meaning I'm responsible for all the regions and the collection of intelligence. I'm joined by my colleag

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Obviously I can't comment on specific operational activities that occurred, but I can speak a bit more generally about how we do our investigations. We have a number of authorities under the CSIS Act. The CSIS Act permits us to investigate, to the extent that it's strictly neces

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. I'll reply in English to make sure I'm clear. The trigger for sharing information is related to whether we perceive a possible threat to the security of Canada. As you mentioned earlier, we investigate the activities of certain individuals who we be

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. We pass on information to the various levels, depending on the intended purpose of sharing the information. On one level, we pass information at the strategic level, at the headquarters level, and that's where the official disclosures will occur. This is because we have to

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If I have understood your question correctly, you want to know whether several levels of CSIS discussed threats in general, and yes, there were several discussions about this at various levels. Ultimately, there was a comprehensive threat assessment that gave us all the informati

Procedure and House Affairs committee  When there is an incident of this nature, as I mentioned before, we usually join the intelligence groups that are created by law enforcement. Our primary counterpart for national security incidents is the RCMP. They are the designated lead for national security incidents, but of

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I said just now, from a service point of view it probably wouldn't make a big difference one way or the other. We have excellent relationships with our partners, including local law enforcement, including the Ottawa Police Service, for example, the OPP and other organizations

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As the assistant director of collection, I am responsible for all the regions that are responsible for the investigations on national security issues that the service does. When there is a major incident such as the convoy incident, incident groups are created. This is led by la

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The role of the service is to conduct investigations relating to threats to the security of Canada. We look at individuals and groups who may pose different kinds of threats. We provide advice on what we're seeing in that regard, but in terms of policy decisions regarding, for ex