Yes, we agree.
Mr. Keddy talked about serious criminal activity identified by the CRA. Of course, that begs the question who the CRA are to know what is a crime. The whole purpose of the safeguards in the Constitution is to require our judges, as independent officers, to assess whether or not there are appropriate grounds for that to occur. To simply say that a CRA official in some office somewhere in the land could say, “Ah, I see a crime; I think I'll tell the cops about it”, is outrageous, and that is why all the editorials across the land have said it.
It's not contrary to what others are saying; it's what the Privacy Commissioner has told us is, in her opinion, a problem. I just don't understand why we would break with our Canadian traditions in such an obvious way.