I'm interested in this explanation you have just given, Mr. Forster, because one of the key concerns the Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian has is in creating a framework for how to pursue targets that may be foreign terrorists. You're utilizing the metadata, and because Canada does not have a density of those targets, it means the kind of framework is going to, in effect, cast a very wide net.
Her concern expressed in a personal communication with me...that means many people could be targeted. Because it's such a wide net, a lot of people could be caught in that net who are not a security concern. So that could be very much a risk to our democracy. People start to be concerned about what website they use, or what activities they do, or who they talk to because they may be caught in this very broad net that is based on metadata collection and analysis and considered potential targets of CSEC's activities.
Could you give me your response to that concern?