That's the essence of our proposal here: to find a way to harness the accountability mechanism that is being proposed for all collection of Canadians' information, whether or not it hinges on this finding of a reasonable expectation of privacy. How are you ever going to get to that adjudication unless you have a mechanism? It becomes a circular argument, because what is frequently collected, in our understanding, is metadata, if not a direct interception. In our view, that is certainly one of the issues that is critical to maintaining Canadians' confidence in the proposals. Having more authorization accountability is always going to be better than having less.
On January 30th, 2018. See this statement in context.