Yes, absolutely. We were very limited. As I maintained at the time and I still maintain, it is possible to use a CSIS report, by removing the information that could compromise confidential sources, to give people a general impression of the concerns it may have.
When I was at CSIS and elsewhere, I saw that it was difficult to discuss this kind of thing with academics and scientists. They want as many details as possible and they do not like being told how to do things by the government. So we have to find a way to make them understand before they start their job that they will be working in a sensitive position in terms of national security and they have to take it seriously.
The fact that CSIS might have trouble passing this information on to the Winnipeg lab does not change the fact that the Department of Health and the Public Health Agency of Canada should have received those reports and that information and it was kind of their duty to translate that information into language that would enable the people at the Winnipeg lab to understand the importance of the situation, and this might have required that the security rules and the way they were enforced be changed.