Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
Mayor Brown, happy birthday.
Something you said really struck me. You said if people are concerned about their privacy, don't commit a crime. Their privacy won't be abridged. However, something we've learned with this legislation—we saw it with the Salt Typhoon hacks in the United States—is that if we create the ability for ministerial orders to infringe upon the integrity of encryption systems, we could be creating back doors that hackers could be using to go after the information of innocent, law-abiding Canadian people.
My question for you, Mayor Brown, is this: Would you still support this legislation if you knew we were creating a vulnerability that could result in your own personal information and your own private messages being hacked and used by extortionists?