Mr. Chair, in response to Ms. Ablonczy, whom I do take very seriously on this issue, we're not amending to take out the warrants. Again, we're simply amending the bill to take out a piece of overreach that I don't believe is necessary for those warrants to operate. The warrants will still be there and the requirement for CSIS to get a warrant and the Canadian standards will still be there. I simply don't believe it's necessary to have the wording without regard to any other law of a foreign state or international law. That creates problems down the road for Canada's international reputation, as Mr. Easter has just pointed out. Again, I did ask the same question when the officials were here, if this were seen as necessary by any of our partners who have such warrants, and it's not. None of them use this, so I believe it's a case of overreach once again in the bill.
On December 1st, 2014. See this statement in context.