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

On June 15th, 2017. See this statement in context.

June 15th, 2017 / 5:20 p.m.

Liberal

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Liberal Beaches—East York, ON

I have a question on that.

I have the guidelines here. In fact, they reference statutes. IRPA, as an example, in subsection 139(1), talks about “reasonable” grounds, so there is a threshold under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Under the Customs Act, the guidance suggests that it be “conducted if there is a multiplicity of indicators that evidence of contraventions may be found on the digital device or media”. Is the area of concern that this is vague language?

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