National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Act

Marginal note:Complaints — Communications Security Establishment

• 17 (1) Any person may make a complaint to the Review Agency with respect to any activity carried out by the Communications Security Establishment and the Agency must, subject to subsection (2), investigate the complaint if

  • (a) the complainant has made a complaint to the Chief of the Communications Security Establishment with respect to that activity and the complainant has not received a response within a period of time that the Agency considers reasonable or is dissatisfied with the response given; and

  • (b) the Agency is satisfied that the complaint is not trivial, frivolous or vexatious or made in bad faith.

• Marginal note:Other redress available

  (2) The Review Agency must not investigate a complaint in respect of which the complainant is entitled to seek redress by means of a grievance procedure established under the Communications Security Establishment Act or the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act.