Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Bill C-8 proposes unrestricted secrecy provisions with respect to the orders the government will be able to issue to telecommunications providers and other entities. The amendment that I'm proposing would implement safeguards by limiting the grounds that justify the use of secrecy around the issuance of these orders by adopting language that is similar to that used in the Canada Evidence Act, which constrains secrecy to where it is justified on the grounds that disclosures “would be injurious to international relations or national defence or national security”.
There are two components within the amendment. I won't read them out because everybody has copies of it, but it basically incorporates that language into those respective sections.