—leaving to Parliament the authority or the choice to craft a reasonable standard for border officers to perform their duties.
I would simply end by saying that I know that Bill S-7 proposes a novel standard to authorize border officers to perform their duties. At the end of the day, I would say that it seems to me that no standard will stand up before the courts unless there is an objective basis for the belief by a border officer that he or she will find material that is unlawful. Because of that, I'm not so sure a law can have a standard below reasonable grounds to suspect, which is a known standard, because the courts, it seems to me, will inevitably require some objective basis on the part of the border officer to perform the search.