On a number of occasions, you were told about a moratorium, whether desirable or otherwise, that was going to be applied until an enhanced act was adopted. It's clear to me that a moratorium applicable to police services should be provided for in a law. However, I found it interesting last week when the RCMP representative raised a number of principles governing the use of facial recognition by the RCMP. That's in the English version I'm looking at.
He said it should be “targeted, time-limited and subject to verification by trained experts. Further, [it] should not be used to confirm an identity, but rather only be considered as an investigational aid”.
The matter of verification by someone was raised.
You could ask the RCMP to commit to using facial recognition only in accordance with the principles stated by its representative last week. I feel that would be the best way of handling a moratorium while awaiting the enhanced act.