In our view, suspicion is too low of a threshold. In Bykovets, the Supreme Court points out how much providing access to an individual's IP address violates their privacy. Obtaining an IP address provides access to everything.
The way the bill is currently worded, with reasonable grounds to suspect as the threshold for a confirmation-of-service demand, the purpose is merely to obtain information that will assist in the investigation. The reason for the demand is not that the suspect may have committed an offence. It's that the information will assist in the investigation.
The authoritative decision on reasonable suspicion establishes that this standard captures a lot of people who are not involved.
It was therefore—
