At first I was going to be critical of my friend Mr. Lee, because I thought he had sat on the review of regulations committee for too many years, but he does raise a good point, because, having been a court officer.... One of the things that of course defence counsel always raises is the definition of words. I thank him for bringing this up. But I hope—and this question will be to the witnesses here—that it's not in a way to reduce or diminish the kind of the electronic apparatus.
The intent, I believe, and I'm hoping that our witnesses can verify this, is that as more and more information or communication devices such as telephones become mobile computers able to do many more things—not only transmit pictures, but sequences of minutes of actual things happening....
Would I, as the minister said, be correct, Madam Morency, to say that what you're attempting to do here by using that term is to capture not only present but possibly various future types of communication devices?