Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
With regard to this amendment, I note the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce have raised concerns with respect to production order thresholds, saying that “reasonable grounds to suspect” is an unreasonably low standard, particularly given the Supreme Court of Canada's findings regarding the high potential sensitivity of subscriber information, which has been described as “narrow in scope” but in fact is incredibly revealing about “personal aspects of an individual's life”.
With respect to the standard, this amendment replaces the language “reasonable grounds to suspect” with “reasonable grounds to believe”. Doing so in all provisions regarding subscriber information, production orders and real-time device tracking authorizations will set a standard that requires the probability of a crime rather than a mere suspicion before they can map a citizen's movement or demand identifying logs.
I hope committee members will support this amendment. I note that others have also advanced exactly the same amendment.