Thank you, Minister.
To be quite clear, the Spencer decision, paragraph 71, was quite clear that PIPEDA creates no new search or seizure powers for law enforcement. The way that PIPEDA would function is to reflect the authorities that are elsewhere for police. Section 7(3)(c.1) identifies the circumstances in which companies can voluntarily provide information to law enforcement where they have a lawful authority to receive it. The Spencer decision clarified what that lawful authority means. It meant either that there is a common law authority where there's no reasonable expectation of privacy, or in circumstances where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy that there's a reasonable law, that police have a warrant, or that there's exigent circumstances. PIPEDA reflects all of those circumstances, and the Supreme Court decision was quite clear that it has no bearing on PIPEDA itself.
PIPEDA does not create search and seizure powers for law enforcement.