Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you for being here today, Mr. Therrien.
I have a question about the connection between speech and privacy. I think you would agree that free speech and the right to it and to privacy enjoy a very intimate and indeed interdependent connection. Bill C-59 would replace one of the most controversial features of Bill C-51, the advocating of terrorism offences in general, with a more traditional offence, that of counselling specific terrorism offences.
We heard just the other day from Professor Stephanie Carvin, who in a piece for The Globe and Mail, wrote:
This better respects freedom of expression while still recognizing that much speech — including terrorist recruitment and instruction — is a reasonable target for criminalization.
Can you comment on this change in Bill C-59 and what you make of it from a privacy perspective?