It's important to take a step back and look at the initial reason for this amendment. It was written with a particular focus on privacy and charter rights issues, issues that usually warrant judicial review and authorization. Now that it's been clearly established that this is not the case here, we are talking about orders relating to the security and technical operation of communications networks.
Given that cyber-attacks can happen at any time, even in the middle of the night, as in Mr. Lloyd's example, 48 hours is a very long time. Moreover, rarely is a judicial authorization mechanism used to regulate private sector businesses. I'd like to hear the experts on this: Why would we need such a process when there is normally no such process to regulate private enterprise?
