Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would not be the fact that, in the normal course, a minister or their staff would have access to the system. The access is tightly controlled and generally run by bureaucrats. The way the intelligence moved through the department was in paper form, so I would receive briefin

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would not believe that it was sent by email, to be clear. It would have been sent on one of our top secret systems, and it would have been downloaded, printed and then packaged for Minister Blair. That would have been the normal course.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry. Again, I cannot answer with specificity. The volume of intelligence, and I really have to emphasis this point, is very large.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My comment on your question, Mr. Cooper, would be that there are many people in Canada who on an ongoing basis are being targeted by foreign interference. It was not my job to inform them. There are processes and ways of doing so. In this instance, I was not tracking what other p

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sure. We collect two kinds of intelligence in Canada by Canadian agencies: human intelligence and signals intelligence. That turns into both raw reports of the information that's obtained and assessed intelligence which are distilled and analyzed for credibility and verifiability

Procedure and House Affairs committee  A couple of inches.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I am unable to answer that question in specificity. I would tell you that, in the river of intelligence that crossed my desk, it could have occurred at any point in time subsequent to when it was written.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, I do not recollect reading it, but I think I would have because I saw a lot of intelligence.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In all likelihood.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I did not brief Mr. Blair about the IMU.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The intelligence moves in the system through various channels, and one of the channels that it moves through inside the Department of Public Safety is to the minister separately from the deputy minister. In the context of our discussions with CSIS is when issues management notes

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. Since late last year this committee has been looking at foreign interference in Canada's elections, and I commend your commitment to this important issue. Ensuring that Canada's elections remain free

International Trade committee  No.

International Trade committee  I would just add to the minister's answer that one has to think about this in a portfolio context. The vast majority of our support for trade from the Crown corporations goes through Export Development Canada, which financed and insured $111 billion of exports.