National Security Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians and Federal Government

country security intelligence: The Committee of Parliamentarians With this legislation, Bill C-22, the federal government is fulfilling the single most important commitment it made to Canadians to improve this country security and intelligence architecture, according to Huffington Post Canada. As promised, we are creating a nine-member National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians -- two Senators and seven MPs -- who will have extraordinary access to classified information and a broad mandate to scrutinize any and all departments and agencies of the Government of Canada with security or intelligence functions. Publishing the details now will give ample time for these three measures to be studied before they come up for debate and votes in the fall. Their objective will be to help ensure that all those departments and agencies are effective in keeping Canadians safe and secure, and that Canadian values, rights and freedoms and the open, generous, inclusive character of our country are safeguarded. Canada is the anomaly. Virtually every other western nation has such a parliamentary vehicle to provide senior-level supervision and accountability. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.