We feel that the scheme laid out in Bill C-59, as we said, is an improvement in terms of clarifying what the contours of threat disruption look like and making clearer to both the public and to the service itself what the acceptable and prohibited bounds are. In particular, the addition of prohibited activities, including detention, was in our view quite an important one.
I want to reference that when we expressed concerns about disruption and why this is not being done by law enforcement, some of that has to do with making sure we can effectively prosecute people once we determine they've done something contrary to the law. The other thing is that we've never been particularly concerned about the kind of disruption you mentioned, such as talking to a parent and saying, “Your child's been getting into some trouble.” We're more concerned with some of the items that are now specifically enumerated in the legislation—things like fabricating or disseminating any information, record, or document; altering or removing websites and communications, and things like that. It's helpful, in our view, to have those in the legislation.
We have suggestions for how the warrant scheme might be improved, and we can elaborate on those in our written submissions.