Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My amendment falls within clause 20, of course. It's attempting to enact a number of the recommendations that were made to the committee by the Canadian Bar Association in terms of the powers of preservation of information and records. It would restrict the power of officers to make such preservation demands to exigent circumstances, so where there's reason to believe that if you don't have a preservation order right away and take some shortcuts, that material might be destroyed. Otherwise, there's no reason not to have a judicial authorization, so it should be restricted to exigent circumstances.
The other recommendation is in relation to laws of a foreign state. Those laws of foreign states should relate to matters that would also be criminal in Canada before a preservation order could be issued under clause 20.
I won't read through the amendment because it's fairly complex, but I think it's clear and committee members will have already reviewed it. We want to make sure that the exigent circumstances and the rationale around them must at least be reasonable that any offence committed in a foreign state must also be an offence in Canada, and the reason these rather shortcut measures are being taken is that if they don't, there's a significant risk that material will be destroyed.