In order to ensure that the information referred to is not made available to more persons than necessary, it is also essential that each Member State should designate not more than one body having responsibility for producing passports and travel documents, with Member States remaining free to change the body, if need be. For security reasons, each Member State should communicate the name of the competent body to the Commission and the other Member States.

Hon. Ed Broadbent: I'm really trying to understand this, because if it got into the hands of U.S. security forces or whatever and that's not criticizing them for looking after their own interests, but I am concerned that if they look after their own interests by impinging upon the privacy of Canadians.If this gets into the hands of U.S. security forces, who don't have the best record in recent history of treating people in an outstanding way, with the CIBC as a transmission agency, how do we control in any way, once it leaves our borders, how it's dealt with in the U.S.?

The security relationship between Canada and the United States is very simple: Canada has an obligation to provide the United States assurances that what happens within its air space, for example, in the case of NORAD, does not represent a security threat to the United States.

This security structure would be an appropriate interlocutor for the American security bodies.

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With 9/11, the arrival of the security states in the United States and Hillary Rodham Clinton's dictum that security trumps economics, we have entered into a completely new experience in terms of the security relationship with the United States.