Mr. Bilodeau, the public safety minister has mentioned that the metadata provision will be brought in line with U.S. law, but the American lawful access statute, CALEA, imposes no data retention requirement at all. It's an interception regime. It requires providers to be able to hand over communication under a warrant. It does not require them to stockpile metadata in advance on everyone, just in case. There's nothing in U.S. law resembling the up-to-a-year, suspicionless retention this bill contemplates.
Can you be specific on which U.S. statute he would be referring to that would get us up to date and in line with U.S. law?