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Public Safety committee That's an excellent question. We try to tackle that, Ms. Khera, in the report, in chapter 2. I think it starts at paragraph 106 or 107. We talk about the definition: “activities ranging from overt and often friendly forms of normal diplomatic conduct on the one hand to covert and hostile actions on the other”.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee Maybe I can take a crack at it and ask Ms. Marcoux to add something as well. It's really important for committee members to hear what our committee says on this, which is that we're not singling out ethnocultural communities—as some have asked us about in the past—because we want to negatively affect the perceptions of certain ethnocultural communities in Canada.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee That's correct.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee It's one of our next two major reviews that are now under way. It's an examination of cyber-threats and the ability of the government to respond to those threats, keeping in mind as well, sir, that under new legislation, new powers, a private sector actor can now approach the Minister of National Defence and ask for assistance if required, if the private sector actor is now the subject of major cyber-threat activity.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee You're breaking up a little bit there, sir, so I couldn't get all that. Sorry.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee Thank you. It's always difficult. There are so many interesting areas, and we don't generally speak openly from a committee perspective on what we are or are not doing. We simply come to ground on what we're doing, and then we announce it and then we speak only once we have produced something.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee Thank you, Mr. Harris. I think one of the things we did point out in the report, to be as specific as possible, was that we took a long, hard look at the Prime Minister's tiger team, which was created in 2016. We called out the fact that the tiger team, which was set up to develop a performance measurement framework for the entire federal government, hadn't met since June 2018.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee I think the committee members would agree that of course there is a lot of progress to be made. I think they would agree that—
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee Well, I think they would agree that the nature of foreign interference is evolving. I think they would agree that the seriousness of the threats is becoming better known. We tried to describe those threats throughout that chapter, that review. We focused on the core community members and actors.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee That is precisely the question we want to answer. We are not in a position today to tell Canadians whether the situation is improving or not. Allow me to explain what the committee means by seeking out the best talent. Given that the security and intelligence community has not made sufficient progress to improve diversity and inclusion in the past decade, we want to make sure that it has access to the best talent in Canada.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee What a question, Ms. Michaud. Do we have a half-hour, Mr. Chair?
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee Canada should move swiftly to adopt a more centralized and coordinated approach, in conjunction with the national security and intelligence advisor to the Prime Minister, for one. Canada should take an in-depth look at Australia and the centralized working group it recently established within the government.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee For the first time, we studied nine security and intelligence organizations, including CBSA, CSIS, CSE, DND, GAC, ITAC, PCO and the RCMP. We established a baseline to compare representation of women, indigenous peoples, members of visible minorities and persons with disabilities across the nine organizations active in security and intelligence.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee That's not a question I am able to answer, Mr. Kurek, on behalf of the committee. It is not something the committee has examined. It's not a review that we have undertaken.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty
Public Safety committee We have, of course, in our review had a lot to say about foreign interference, and we would commend to you those particular pages that set out in great detail what we believe is happening. I wish I could give you some indication, but the committee has not pronounced on this question.
November 23rd, 2020Committee meeting
David McGuinty