When you say, “catching up with the rest of the world”, though, this actually goes further. It goes into areas that other democratic countries have rejected in the past.
To be clear, I want law enforcement to have the tools available to do their jobs. When I spoke to police chiefs in my riding, and others in law enforcement, a lot of what they said they wanted is in part 1 of the bill. They did not talk about wanting to force back doors into these technological services, which is exactly what Apple, Meta and Google have said this legislation will force them to do to comply with the demands that your government is putting on these companies, which have vast amounts of Canadians' data.