To the extent that retaining data is a breach of the right to privacy, if we want to both ensure security and protect rights, it seems to me that it is easy to say that we will not retain data on persons who are not a threat to national security, since there will be no consequences for national security. I will leave that for the moment, but this is certainly not the last time I talk about it.
I would like to put my question to your colleague the Minister of Justice, but since you are here, I will put it to you.
Some Department of Justice lawyers went to court to defend what CSIS had done. Were you or your colleague the Minister of Justice aware of the arguments put forward by the Department of Justice?