Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, I can't speculate on previous practice, and you will hear from my predecessors. In my opinion and per the direction of the Prime Minister, he wants to be briefed, period, whether it is credible or not, and so he will be provided that information.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think that's a really important question. Number one, there should be, as I said previously, no single point of failure in terms of intelligence. That's why we are now bringing critical intelligence to deputy ministers to analyze and to give advice on. That piece of intellige

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. That's not exactly what I said. I said we have fixed this going forward. For particular pieces of intelligence that reference members of Parliament.... That one in July did not mention MP Chong by name. Going forward, when there is a reference to a member of Parliamen

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a really important point. I think the clarification would be about the word “threat”. That a foreign government is speaking about a particular member of Parliament doesn't necessarily mean that there is a threat against them, and I think the criticality here is going to be h

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it's an important element of this process. The Prime Minister can receive intelligence through the reading package of the issues that he is tracking. That would go to the Prime Minister's Office. It is shared with him. As Katie Telford said, intelligence is not held back

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I think what's important to note is that senior members in the Prime Minister's Office have daily reading packages on daily intelligence, similar to mine, generally on geopolitics—where we have troops stationed, points of interest in terms of the Prime Minister's int

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We traced all the addresses. We found out who it had been sent to and tried to determine why it had not been briefed up.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We did.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I told Mr. Chong, it went to several deputy ministers. It's incumbent upon the deputy ministers to brief those ministers.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was the deputy minister of public safety, the deputy minister of foreign affairs and the deputy minister of national defence.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I don't think the integrity of my statements here and what I said to Mr. Chong are in question. It is absolute fact that the memo was distributed, and it was not briefed to the Prime Minister.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Not that I am aware of.