Minister, thank you for being here.
I'm going to start with Bill C-22, which has generated a huge amount of concern from civil society groups which, I think quite justifiably, do not trust your government to respect fundamental charter rights, given your government's track record. You keep coming back, as do your colleagues, to this line that, when you force electronic service providers to retain metadata, it's no different from just having a copy of the phone book that someone could leaf through.
The problem with this, and where it falls short, is that metadata is so much deeper than that. It includes, for example, location data. Why is where my wife and I went to dinner the other night, why is a Canadian's movement pattern—a Canadian who hasn't been suspected or accused of committing a crime—relevant to withhold and to force companies to withhold?