I'll try to be quick without going through the whole list.
I think the amendments were essentially on lawful advocacy. I believe there was one other amendment, and it was to section 6, which says that information can be shared for any purpose. The complaint I had was that this was essentially completely unwarranted, even in this broad act. Once the recipient agency has it, it can then be shared anywhere, including with foreign agencies, for any reason. There was some amendment to that.
I don't think those amendments essentially changed the core of my concerns. I'll just quickly go through them.
The word “lawful” was dropped on the advocacy. That is fine, because the complaint was that people can be unlawful but not violent, just civilly disobedient, and do we want to pull those people into the national security net? I don't think any of us want to do that.
I believe that Professor Roach and Professor Forcese raised the issue of violence. I concur with them that you need to clean that definition up to make it a little tougher. It's a little loose now. It needs to mirror the Criminal Code's lawful exemption, where advocacy, protest, and dissent that are not violent are covered. They could be unlawful but not violent, and we would all probably agree on that.
I don't think the other amendment on section 6 actually changed anything. Some words were changed to say that sharing is neither allowed nor prohibited but must comply with law. The question was, which law? The green paper's legal interpretation of the Privacy Act is that SCISA is a lawful authority to override the Privacy Act. Essentially, section 6 still says that you can share with anyone, and it's not even linked to the purpose of SCISA anymore.
Essentially, those are the two amendments. I don't think they change my concerns with the bill.