Some concerns we've heard regard the ability of the Federal Court to issue warrants within the scope of relevant Canadian law when issuing warrants to authorize CSIS to undertake certain activities to investigate a threat to the security of Canada, outside of Canada. Some may wonder why warrants would not be more appropriate coming from the nation where the activities are taking place. Could you comment on why this is important, as some of those countries may not exactly have a court system that can be approached for a warrant, as well as the transnational nature of these investigations?
On November 24th, 2014. See this statement in context.