My single concern really relates to the circumstances in which the director of CSIS can authorize a query of a dataset that hasn't gone through the regular retention process involving the Federal Court, for instance. There's no indication in the statute as to what the service can then do with the product of that query. For regular queries there are rules about retention and in what circumstance they can be retained. For exigent queries those rules are not there so I'm not sure whether this is a glitch in the drafting or whether this is intended. It seems to me it would be very easy to pull the results of those queries into the regular retention regime but at present I don't see how it does so.
On December 5th, 2017. See this statement in context.