Yes.
The chiefs of police, including the RCMP commissioner, make the point that the Supreme Court's decision in Spencer, which reinforced the need for warrants for access to the sensitive personal information of Canadians, is essentially creating important impediments that make their lives, if not impossible, extremely difficult, and that Parliament should provide for more cases of warrantless access if the police are to do their jobs. I need to be convinced of that. I think we all need to be convinced of that.
I don't question in any way the difficulties, in the past, of the police and national security agencies, but I think it would be important that they demonstrate what conditions in Spencer make their lives impossible. One of the conditions in Spencer is that if there is an urgent need to have access to information, it can be obtained without a warrant. If that's the case, why do they need to further liberalize the conditions?
