If the legislation is renewed, a periodic review would be necessary in the shortest timeframe possible. I fully agree with you there. Indeed, today's exercise is not a societal debate. In fact, most Canadians are not even aware of this statutory justification. In our opinion, there has not been really substantive public debate on this, except within certain organizations and among legal experts. Debate has been extremely limited, because people are unaware of the situation.
In that sense, there should indeed be periodic debate, if these provisions are retained, as well as ongoing review of the legislation. I would even go so far as to suggest that public consultations be held, as there have been with respect to identity cards, for example. I took part in public consultations on that very matter. When this project came forward under Mr. Coderre, at the time he was minister, he was deemed to be an important issue. In our opinion, allowing people to commit offences as part of an investigation is also an important issue that relates to the rule of law. So, I would go that far.
I fully agree with you that there needs to be ongoing, but more in-depth review of this legislation than what the tools we currently have available to us would allow.