I have another question. I sympathize with your feelings on after-the-fact reporting. I still have two concerns about the pre-authorization, in light of the conversation I just had with my colleague.
A crime is a crime, and we want to stop crime. The Supreme Court didn't say the police need authorization for serious crimes before they commit them. They said they need authorization to deal with any crimes. So why would we not want to stop crime and leave that open?
My other concern about the pre-authorization--and I mentioned this when the police were in--is in the case of dealing with something serious like organized crime. There have been instances in the past of an infiltrator in a police force. This law doesn't apply just to the RCMP; it's a lot broader than that. But any information, any sense of pre-authorization, can be a tipoff to organized crime. If you have a high-ranking official embedded, then they're going to have a lot of access to a lot of information and be able to find this out and then put our undercover people in jeopardy.