I do have some concerns about how unclear that is.
What about the question of foreign law, where the issue is that CSIS is going to do things that would not be allowable under the foreign law? The minister told us that's not an issue, because we have better laws than dictators do. Well, there are many other states where CSIS would operate that have perfectly functional systems where their own authorities may need to get warrants. We have heard in the past that CSEC, the Canadian security establishment, has on occasion done the bidding of foreign service agencies, if you believe some of what's in the famous book called Spyworld by Mike Frost. We may even have been involved in spying on cabinet ministers in the U.K. at the behest of the intelligence agencies there, because it would be against the law for them to do it. Whether or not this is true factually, it's a scenario.
I'm wondering what you would say to a judge if CSIS were completely forthcoming and said, “This is what we want to do. We want to do something that the foreign intelligence agency cannot do under its own law.”