Our closest allies have plenty of legal mechanisms. For me, the primary purpose of the registry is to lower the evidentiary threshold for investigations, because, in many cases, it is very difficult for security and criminal intelligence to reach the current threshold as defined in law in Canada. With the registry, you are now giving the agencies a much lower threshold for the purpose of investigation. That, I think, is the primary purpose.
On June 5th, 2024. See this statement in context.