Right. I definitely won't question that last conclusion.
You had two questions. The first was respecting the public reports and the second respecting the potential difficulties with restraining this solely to organized crime. Let me address each in turn.
The public reports, as you may know, don't require the disclosure of every use of these sections. Indeed, they only require the use of certain exceptional provisions of these sections, namely, when the police authorize the use of these sections that would cause important damage to property and where the police authorize a non-police member to use these sections.
In the normal course, if neither the use of these sections for property or the use of these sections to authorize a third person are at issue, there is no obligation of reporting. Indeed, one of the recommendations I would have for your committee is to increase the reporting requirements to all activities, not merely to those two.
Secondly, as for limiting this to organized crime, I think there would be ways of addressing your concern in the manner in which the exception could be built into the law. In fact, we wouldn't have to specify specific legislation as such. We could include a provision that said that in the opinion of the senior official, it is necessary for the purposes of this particular investigation. Currently, there is no such restriction on the use of these provisions.