Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This amendment seeks to clarify the activities that the CSE may undertake. In light of information leaks by Edward Snowden, in particular, we have seen that such tests can cause problems in computer systems.
This amendment seeks to ensure that these tests will be done with the knowledge of the people concerned, even though this is certainly already common practice, which I hope. This would impose the legal obligation to obtain the consent, for example, of a telecommunications company or any person who could be targeted by a system, software or component of the IT infrastructure. This would minimize the impact of any potential problems during these tests that could be detrimental to a Canadian using the same infrastructure.