Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  That would be right.

Public Safety committee  No. I have a day job. I am the Deputy Minister of National Defence. We're fairly well occupied at the moment; I just haven't had the chance to read it.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chairman, I saw the minister regularly throughout that period and throughout my term as director of CSIS on a wide variety of issues. With respect to that specific issue, it was my view that it was inappropriate for CSIS to be...or that the request was inappropriate, in a s

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chairman, it wouldn't have been unusual for information not to have been shared, as Mr. Judd indicated. There are lots of occasions when information is not shared. Certainly, at the time, it was not a case of the RCMP telling us not to share because they were going to share.

Public Safety committee  At the time, we expressed interest in having more information, but we were not provided additional information.

Public Safety committee  I don't find it odd. There are lots of occasions when countries don't share information with us or we don't share information with other countries. It is not particularly a surprise.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  We were focused on the information we would provide to the PCO. I wasn't focused on the information that the RCMP was providing or not providing.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chairman, from what I'm aware of what Mr. Justice O'Connor said--and it is frankly only from the newspapers, as I have not read the report--my understanding of his comments is that they don't actually go to the question asked about the removal of Mr. Arar from the United Stat

Public Safety committee  I can't comment on that. I'm not aware of the information that the RCMP have before them.

Public Safety committee  As I said at the beginning, I didn't become aware of that until very recently.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chairman, I'm here with respect to activities at an earlier time. I have a day job as Deputy Minister of National Defence. I'm not a spokesman for CSIS, and it wouldn't be for me to comment on that subject.

Public Safety committee  I'd like to take it a slight step further. I don't think either of us could comment on the information that was shared with the RCMP. It would not be the practice of the service to comment on such information.