Thank you for that, Minister.
I'm not that reassured, because we have RCMP officers who are already speaking out on this. They spoke out earlier this month and said:
Canada must act quickly; this ruling opens a huge gap in our ability to protect kids and stop offenders from preying on them. There must always be a balance between citizen privacy and the state but—
This is in the words of an RCMP officer who is on Twitter, Sergeant Kerry Shima.
—this decision has put our kids in the crosshairs.
Those are the words of RCMP officers on the front lines.
It's now been three weeks. Your government has now unveiled massive new legislation, the online harms act, yet I can find nothing in your online harms act that deals with the fallout from this very concerning decision, which, in the words of an RCMP officer, “essentially terminates investigations into online sex offenders and identifying child victims”.
We cannot allow our country to be a safe haven for child predators. What are we going to do about this immediately, Minister?