Thank you, Chair.
I guess either the minister or Mr. Forster can answer this. You said that the mandate of the CSE, under the National Defence Act, is to acquire and use information from the global information infrastructure, as you pointed out. That's a very broad definition. Of course, what's included in that, is there in the act; it includes anything that deals with electronic communications. Why, if that's all you're doing, do you need the authorizations such as those that were brought in, in 2005 and 2011, to collect metadata?