Thank you very much.
Thanks to the witnesses for being here today. I know many of you from the public safety committee, where we're used to seeing men and women in uniform.
I know we have broad consensus in Parliament that there's a necessity to act against the non-consensual distribution of images, but there's a lot more in Bill C-13than just that, so I'm going to focus on some other aspects in my questions.
We certainly heard from the witnesses today your case for updating the Criminal Code and having new tools to respond so you can get timely access to information for investigations of cybercrime. But we've also heard concerns from other witnesses and other members of the public that in providing those tools, Bill C-13 is sometimes overly broad. So I want to focus on the question of lawful access.
Bill C-13 creates the new tool of a preservation demand or a preservation order for data, and I'm probably prepared to concede that may be something that you need to have, but why does the standard of proof change? Why shift from reason to believe to the lesser standard of reason to suspect? Wouldn't this tool still operate at the higher level? Wouldn't it still be a good tool if it was reason to believe?
I guess I'll ask Mr. Chu, as the president of the Canadian chiefs association.