Certainly.
We're very concerned when we hear the statement by Mr. Justice Noël, for example, in the Federal Court case that found 10 years of breach of the duty of candour by CSIS in relation to the illegal collection of metadata in their bulk data holdings. You will find in that 137-page judgment—very thoughtful, very considered—a kind of statement that you almost never see from a judge of the Federal Court, traditionally very deferential to national security needs.
He asks what it will take. Do we need to prosecute for contempt of court in order to get these findings of failure of the duty of candour before the court to be taken seriously?
That kind of statement from a Federal Court judge should alert us to what I am indeed calling—you are citing those correctly—a crisis of confidence that we have national security agencies, specifically in this case CSIS, operating within the law.