Thank you.
I mentioned this to the minister, and I felt there was some openness. We'll see. Here we seek to remove the vague concept of autorité légitime, to use the French word, or “otherwise authorized by law”. The particular example that comes to mind with regard to this part of the legislation is—and given this person's unpredictability, who knows—President Trump's floating out notions of mandatory cellphone searches for all travellers going to the U.S., regardless of their citizenship or where they're coming from. That could obviously affect Canadians as well, in a worst-case scenario. We question whether a presidential executive order could be considered as “otherwise authorized by law”, or autorité légitime, if we're looking at the French.
By removing that, we feel it makes it explicit that we're talking about specifically Canada and the U.S., and not these vaguer notions of executive orders and other things of that nature, particularly given the unpredictable political climate, and dare I say, legal climate, that exists south of the border.