I'm going to be harmonious and agree with both of the previous speakers.
I think it's really important to speak to the difference between a phone, which is like a window to your life, and a suitcase, which contains socks and underwear and maybe a couple of pairs of jeans. They are qualitatively different things, and we're dealing with them in the same way. We argue that it simply doesn't make sense.
Even if we think it's very important that we have strong security at our borders because we don't want bad things to come in—that was one of the rationales behind the Customs Act, that we don't want bad things crossing our border—electronic documents on a device are not a “thing” in any sense. They're not being imported into Canada in any real way, because they exist whether or not they're coming across the border. They could cross the border with the human or without—online. There's no real physical importation of a document that makes that document any particular risk to national security or to the sovereignty of Canada. Those are the principles on which we say there should be expanded powers of search at the border, because those two things, national security and sovereignty, are so important. That's why we really think it's time to update the legislation and think about the fundamental differences between electronic devices and suitcases.