I'm happy to speak to that.
I think it's important when looking at the “publicly available information” proposed amendments, as well as “a reasonable expectation of privacy”, to explain again the purpose of this provision.
First of all, we're not a domestic investigatory body. We don't build dossiers on Canadians. That's not within our mandate.
Second of all, this is meant to reflect the kind of information that we access now, reflect that transparently by way of legislation. The information that we access now in furtherance of our mandate is reviewed and reviewable by the current CSE commissioner—reviews as per privacy matters. It is not meant to broaden information that we have access to. It's basically to say that we will use information that's available to any Canadian, any other department or agency, parliamentary research or what have you, in the furtherance of our mandate.
That is there to provide clarity for those who will review us that when we're doing that kind of thing—looking at a CBC website or what have you—we are not directing our activities at Canadians. The justice charter statement around Bill C-59 makes it clear that this is information that has a low reasonable expectation of privacy. Any kind of information we would acquire that could interfere with the reasonable expectation of privacy would be done under our ministerial authorization, and that explicitly states we cannot direct those activities at Canadians.
Just to make it clear, this is not a way to broaden information; it's to reflect information that's out there that anyone can look at. When we're doing that, we're not directing that activity at a Canadian.