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House Hansard - 194

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 10, 2023 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 194 - May/10/23
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • May/10/23 2:50:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our intelligence agencies receive vast numbers of pieces of information and analyze threats to Canadians, to institutions and to our politics regularly. They make determinations about which pieces of information hit the threshold and need to be passed up the chain and what kind of priority they meet. What I have done over the past week is ensure that any threat, no matter how low the threshold, no matter how unsavoury or unreliable the source, should be elevated if it talks about MPs and their families. Going forward, that will be the story, but this—
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Context: House Hansard - 194 - May/10/23
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • May/10/23 2:51:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have to give credit where it is due. The Leader of the Opposition almost got it right in the beginning of his last question. It is CSIS itself that makes determinations on the credibility, the threat level and the seriousness of the various pieces of information that come in. It makes determinations, quite appropriately, about what to do with that information, how high to elevate it and how urgently it needs to be brought forward. One can draw certain conclusions about the decision CSIS made based on certain elements of information as to the critical nature or the seriousness of the actual information—
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