I'm not a member of this committee. I'm sitting in for a colleague today but I'm extremely interested in the topic, not just as an individual MP, but certainly I know constituents have raised matters of privacy.
I am looking at a report here. I'll read from it. It says on the CBSA and their powers with respect to devices:
The agency's policy states that personal devices should only be searched when officials have reason to believe a device will contain “evidence of contraventions” or proof you have violated a law through files or information “known or suspected to exist” on your phone.
I have two questions with respect to evidence of contraventions.
I'm going to assume that relates to evidence of contraventions of the Customs Act. Mr. Fraser, you talked about an example from Cuba. Could you go into that because I wonder, is there a clear list of contraventions that are being followed here or examples of contraventions or is it simply up to a guess on the part of the CBSA officer? Also, when it comes to information, files for example that are known or suspected to exist, what does “suspected” mean according to what you've been able to gather?