Lawful access and Canada Post are fascinating things, and I think, if you heard from any police witnesses, they were disappointed to see the removal of lawful access from Bill C-12. However, I understand it's still being considered from different perspectives, and it might come down again.
One challenge we see is that, obviously, as social media and artificial intelligence have exploded at a meteoric rate over the past three to five years, the capacity and abilities to modernize and be nimble, as a law enforcement agency dealing with deepfakes, cyber-fakes and just some of the crimes that happen in that world, have been hampered.
I was a BlackBerry person. There was a very public case in which BlackBerry was refusing lawful access to the FBI in the United States. Similarly, with cell phone providers, cell phones, Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, etc., I suspect it will be a challenge in the future to enforce cryptocurrency and those money-laundering things.
We had a file not that long ago, in “C” Division in Quebec, where our market enforcement team seized $56 million of cryptocurrency. The challenge is trying to find out who the owner of that is.
Lawful access is something that's relatively important, and I think it will be a step in the right direction.