Justice committee  No, the report that Parliament gets is on the federal. The provincial has the responsibility to make their numbers public. It could go to a provincial legislature. But we don't dictate to the province on that level of detail. We just say to make it public. So the province could t

Justice committee  They would have to publish it. That's the requirement.

Justice committee  Not necessarily, no.

Justice committee  The amendment wouldn't give anything more in terms of the information if what you're looking for is the global number per province. That information is already going to be required as part of the reporting. The information about the level of breakdown of police forces isn't provi

Justice committee  Provincially it's done through the attorney genera,l and federally it's the Minister of Public Safety.

Justice committee  How it's designed right now is that each province would report on its own activity. The global numbers that the amendment would seem to be looking for would be already part of the scheme, because each province has to report on the total number of interceptions. The breakdown by p

Justice committee  Right now, that's the way it's divided up. Each province has information about its own activities, and the federal government has information about the federal activities. The RCMP, which operates in both federal and provincial areas, reports on their provincial activities to the

Justice committee  The difficulty of doing it the way it's proposed is that people might be confused as to who is receiving the reports. As to your question about whether there's a reason they couldn't provide that information, the only thing I would signal to you is that police forces might be con

Justice committee  It's not something that we've ever canvassed with them directly. When information about capabilities regarding intercept was published in the United States, there were repercussions. Organized criminals were taking that information and moving their operations to areas that had le

Justice committee  How it would work right now is that each province would report its numbers and the federal would report its number.

Justice committee  That's how it works.

Justice committee  Yes, each province reports its numbers.

Justice committee  We can say this. If the proposed change is made, it will probably bring with it some difficulties in terms of interpretation in the provinces, given the way in which the reporting is divided up. The current bill reflects what is in the Criminal Code at the moment. The Criminal Co

Justice committee  We've previously included responses to the reactions in Bill C-31. Then there was Bill C-50. But those responses pertained to lower court rulings. Then came Bill C-30. The Supreme Court rendered its decision on April 13, 2012. So we've been working on responses to the Supreme Cou

Justice committee  The draft of Bill C-55comes from Bill C-30. Previously, it was Bill C-50 and at the outset, it was Bill C-31. The only change that we made to the content of Bill C-30 in order to incorporate it into Bill C-55 was to include the restriction for police officers. The Supreme Court h