Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can start off, but then I'll turn to my colleagues, because we each have a number of tools and authorities available to us. From a CSE perspective, we certainly have a foreign intelligence mandate, so we collect foreign intelligence. For our cyber-defence mandate, we have the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Insofar as it relates to the activities of the panel and the public announcement function it would render should it deem this required, the answer to that question is no.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that excellent question. The way that SITE worked with political parties, which is the general way SITE works, is that we provided threat overviews. We provided information that was relevant to all parties. When there was specific information to provide to a partic

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Maybe just to clarify, in my answer I was talking about the cleared political party representatives. Maybe you're asking about the individual affected by that. I might ask my colleague to answer that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much for that question and for allowing me the opportunity to clarify. What I intended to say is that the agencies represented here reported any threat we saw to the panel. Whether it was something we saw locally or at a national level, all of that information wen

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I could respond very quickly to that. The main change, as I understand it, and I would encourage you to ask this question of PCO when they're here, because they were responsible for changing elements of the protocol.... From a SITE perspective, our mandates remain the same. We a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much for that question. I think I would address the following. I might have alluded to this earlier. As members of the SITE task force, we are looking at instances of threats to elections, particularly from foreign interference, and we wouldn't make that distincti

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Having been a practitioner in the security intelligence community for almost 25 years, I completely understand that point of view. It is a careful balance that we deal with every day. We are definitely attempting to put more information to the public about what we're seeing, abou

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much for that. Go ahead, Ms. Denham.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can speak from a SITE task force perspective. We would have been monitoring, reporting and briefing on any threats. We don't necessarily make a distinction between the riding level and the federal level. In terms of the panel's considerations, I would have to defer to the pane

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The SITE task force, as I indicated in my opening remarks, was responsible for providing briefings. I outlined the three sets of briefings that we were responsible for doing: one for the panel, one for the political party representatives and the third for the election security co

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, exactly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. That is indeed correct, and I realize that the process can be frustrating. In answer to that, I would say that all of us who have been talking about foreign interference for a good amount of time in public try very hard to be as transparent as possi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I could add one point there. I don't want to prejudge the decision-making of the panel members. From our perspective, you'll hear that we are mandated to focus our attention on foreign interference and foreign-influenced activities. We don't monitor—any of us—the internal dialogu