Mr. Chair, in relation to this, for us to obtain any form of judicial authorization, there are some preconditions within the Criminal Code that we have to follow, and that's exactly what we did in this case. These preconditions were not met. In this case, we had insufficient information to substantiate an offence, which was one of the preconditions. As such, this option, as allowed by the Criminal Code, was not available to us.
On February 27th, 2024. See this statement in context.