Mr. Chair, the government does not support this amendment.
This amendment would effectively reduce the level of judicial scrutiny by reducing the level of proof required to obtain the general production order. It's inconsistent with other provisions of the bill, and as such, would render many of those investigative tools less valuable and less powerful in investigating the crimes we're trying to prevent. As we said earlier, it would reduce privacy safeguards that were carefully built into the general production order. On that basis, we'll be opposing the amendment.
(Amendment negatived)