Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I'm saying yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  From what I've heard, measures were recently taken to strengthen the intelligence sharing system to be more mindful of what is happening. That includes the creation of a cabinet committee.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Obviously, we receive a lot of information daily, so we have to put it into context and determine what the really important information is. That's hard to do, and sometimes it takes time, but that's the key process in the system. Right now, we have a lot more processes to specifi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's about figuring out what we need to do.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are links between the activities Global Affairs Canada undertakes and the open-source intelligence mechanism. There are also links with other security agencies and their activities, to be sure. The social media realm is very opaque. It's not at all easy to understand. We c

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't know what you quite mean by evidence.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Intelligence, particularly raw intelligence, can be anything and a range of things from something that you have some certainty about or something that sounds very speculative. This is why we assess intelligence, to make sure there's credibility. When we use language, it's typical

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, for my part, in my role, I'm monitoring. It's the agencies, particularly CSIS and the Communications Security Establishment, which report to different ministers, by the way, who are kind of the first order briefers of the ministers when there are issues of importance. I wo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The SITE task force is composed of the Communications Security Establishment, CSIS, the RCMP and Global Affairs. Each of those is an army of people and a whole process of distilling information and bringing it into a report that is presented to the panel of five, which is what we

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is the role of the panel.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was not part of the panel in 2019, but I can say that I was part of the panel in 2021, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It has been subsequently reported and assessed by people who look at the operation of the panel ex post that the panel did not determine, in either election, that there was a threat to the integrity of the election.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is an ongoing level of foreign interference. It's a very serious problem. There are clandestine and deceptive efforts to influence our democratic processes in society on an ongoing basis. We should take it very seriously. It was not judged by the panel that it had an influe