Thank you, Chair. Through you, I'd like to thank the minister for being here with us this afternoon.
Minister, in my former life as a journalist, I covered some terrorism trials. I could be wrong, but I understand that in your former life as a prosecutor you were involved in some terrorism cases, and based on the information provided to this committee by the RCMP, it looks like terrorism was one of the few crimes that the RCMP would use this technology to address.
I'm wondering if you can talk from your experience about why police might need to use this technology in the right circumstances with the right protocols and checks and balances in place.