G. whereas as a follow-up to the recommendations of the Melo Commission, President Arroyo has issued a 6-point plan to stop extrajudicial killings, including an order to the Department of Justice to broaden and enhance the Witness Protection Programme, requests to the Supreme Court to create Special Courts to try those accused of killings of a political or ideological nature, to the AFP to issue a new document on Command Responsibility and to the Department of Justice and the Department of National Defence to coordina ...[+++]te with the independent Melo Commission on Human Rights and an order to the Department of Foreign Affairs to submit a formal request to the European Union, Spain, Finland and Sweden to send investigators to assist the Commission,

G. whereas as a follow-up to the recommendations of the Melo Commission, President Arroyo has issued a 6-point plan to stop extrajudicial killings, including an order to the Department of Justice to broaden and enhance the Witness Protection Programme, requests to the Supreme Court to create Special Courts to try those accused of killings of a political or ideological nature, to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to issue a new document on Command Responsibility and to the Department of Justice and National Defence t ...[+++]o coordinate with the independent Melo Commission on Human Rights and an order to the Department of Foreign Affairs to submit a formal request to the European Union (EU), Spain, Finland and Sweden to send investigators to assist the Commission,

54. Welcomes the work accomplished or initiated so far on the basis of the above-mentioned proposals and calls, as well as a number of other measures and proposals which traditionally form part of national internal policy; also welcomes in this connection the special role which SITCEN will have in producing risk assessments and analyses in connection with potential terrorist targets; calls in this connection for unrestricted cooperation between all intelligence departments attached to national defence ministrie ...[+++]s so as to create a corresponding capability within SITCEN;

53. Welcomes the work accomplished or initiated so far on the basis of the above-mentioned proposals and calls, as well as a number of other measures and proposals which traditionally form part of national internal policy; also welcomes in this connection the special role which SITCEN will have in creating risk assessments and analyses in connection with potential terrorist targets; calls in this connection for unrestricted cooperation between all intelligence departments attached to national defence ministrie ...[+++]s so as to create a corresponding capability within SITCEN;

You said that while your sample was not designed to draw a statistical conclusion about National Defence's track record vis-à-vis the other departments, National Defence's performance was not exceptional, and this committee might wish to consider the government-wide problem in its deliberations on procurement at National Defence.

Mr. Francis Bradley: I would note, Mr. Chairman, that at the national level—and it was noted in the brief we presented—we are looking at coordinating at a national level, particularly with respect to emergency measures and contingency planning, and have been in discussions with a variety of government departments, National Defence, and representatives from not only electric utilities but the telecommunications industry, other energy associations, transportation, municipalities, and the financi ...[+++]al services sector.