Precisely. It's akin to the way we exempt the police from the carriage of firearms, which is different from citizens. Section 4 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act exempts the police from mere possession of controlled substances, while we have a similar scheme under the CDSA police enforcement regulations to 25.1 for other activities such as trafficking offences committed as though the offence is being committed, as opposed to incidental to carrying out their duties, which is how we would view the use of these documents—as a tool in their activities as opposed to an offence committed vis-à -vis a target.
On September 17th, 2009. See this statement in context.