When the RCMP testifies, they'd be in a better position to answer, but I think it's important to have these tools on the books, and you can question the RCMP or other individuals who will come to testify before this. To say that there have been no changes or no justification.... We know that this is a much different world that we live in today from the one we experienced ten years ago, and we have to keep up to date with these tools.
I don't appear before this committee very often, but many times when I appear before the justice committee, what we are doing is just modernizing the Criminal Code to stay up to date with organized crime and to bring the Criminal Code and the laws of this country into the 21st century. Things move very quickly in this area. We are all facing a terrorist threat; we have to have means on the books so that law enforcement agencies can investigate them.
As you can see, these provisions are preventative in nature, and we want them to be able to prevent terrorism activity.