Mr. Chair, I'd just like to say I do agree with Mr. Casey that parliamentary review is a good and valuable concept and one which we support. I would ask him to accept as a friendly amendment the amendment of “three years” to “seven years”.
The reason for that simply is it will take a substantial amount of time in our view for the law to be put in place and for the cases to generate sufficient evidence on how these provisions perform.
We certainly take the point that in many ways this is a new regime for investigating and protecting Canadians against cyber crimes, and the whole issue of cyber data and how it's treated and how it can be hidden is new and evolving. Therefore, we believe if a sufficient period of time is allowed to pass to see what the implications of these provisions are, that would be an appropriate time for the justice and human rights committee to review the impact of the legislation.