Not to fuel any cynicism, but I think it's fair to say there's a big difference between a publicly available change to regulation and a debate on legislation. I think Mr. Calkins explained it well with regard to being technologically neutral. However, I'm also looking at something like the Justice Noël decision from 2016 where you have CSIS gathering bulk metadata. Metadata is a concept that was fixed in this legislation. Would that be considered a technological change, directly or indirectly?
I ask that question rhetorically because I think everyone agrees on this. Every piece of legislation has something built in for regulatory changes. There's a reason for that, as Mr. Motz explained, but at the end of the day there's the reasonableness of it. I think this is so vast.
It's funny how hearing Mr. Spengemann's intervention makes me even happier to have this amendment. With things like AI coming forward, I certainly don't want the ability of national security agencies to operate with that rapidly changing technology to be subject to the whims of regulatory change. Let's not forget that the person ultimately making the regulatory change is the minister, who, while he gets good advice, is at the end of the day a political actor.
There are grave concerns about this. In this study and our framework review, the tone, the narrative, and certain ideas we were dealing with changed on the fly because of things we were learning on the go. If we can't even get through a study of a bill without being faced with these kinds of changes, then I don't see how we can give this all-encompassing term and then leave it for decades to come. I think that's irresponsible and dangerous.