Nathaniel Erskine-Smith at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

First, thanks very much.

I want to start with the Operational Bulletin PRG-2015-31, “Examination of Digital Devices...”. They're interim guidelines, and I hear the concern expressed that these were released because of an access to information request and were not properly transparent from the outset. I appreciate that they don't formally have the force of law—which may be something we want to consider. I completely appreciate the testimony by the ACLU that there are major gaps in privacy protections in the U.S. right now.

Apart from the password issue, walk me through what's wrong with the interim guidelines.

The question is for the BCCLA and the CCLA.

I'll start with Micheal.