I'm having trouble understanding your reasoning. Fundamentally, Canada does not want to take an aggressive position against any international community, but we have to protect ourselves. According to what you've written and what you've provided to the committee, we are giving CSE too much power, but we have to be prepared to defend our institutions and systems.
You see the rise of certain practices in Canada as a potential gateway to intervention abroad. That's what I'm having trouble wrapping my head around. I appreciate that you don't want a cyber-arms race, but we have no choice. We want to protect ourselves, and we need the tools to do so.
Your group, OpenMedia, posted a video on YouTube. According to the video, Bill C-59 will give Canada's electronic spying agency near-limitless powers in the international realm, in terms of what you were saying, and make it possible to spread false information online for the purpose of influencing foreign elections, as the Russians are said to have done in the 2016 U.S. election.
Is it your position that CSE will proactively influence the democracies or elections of other countries?