In trying to keep it brief, I just want to put on the record that I find it offensive to be accused of preferring the rights of terrorists to the rights of Canadians when I'm trying to amend a dreadful bill and protect the rights of Canadians—and the bill will not make us safer.
Let me just go to this amendment, which is also in response to the letter from the Privacy Commissioner. As he noted:
The Bill is largely silent on the subject of retention and disposal of information shared.... Bill C-51 should be amended to include as a statutory requirement that personal information that does not meet the recipient institution's legal collection standards should be discarded without delay. SCISA should also require that information, once collected, is retained only as long as necessary.
That is exactly what this amendment proposes to do.