There is a provision in Bill C-22. I think it's clause 14. I won't be able to read you the provision, because I forgot my glasses today, but that is an amendment to the exigent circumstances codification. That allows police to act without a warrant under both the reasonable grounds to believe or reasonable grounds to suspect thresholds when exigent circumstances exist and it would be impracticable to go to a court to receive an order.
This is the codification of the common law. Whether we made the amendments here or not, they would still exist. Generally, as I've mentioned before, when police act under exigent circumstances, it comes with a great deal of judicial scrutiny, and they have to demonstrate that they acted reasonably in those circumstances. The ability to act in exigent circumstances lasts only as long as the exigent circumstances exist, so they can exist at one moment, but a couple of hours later, if they don't exist, they can't continue to act. It's very onerous in terms of the proof that they have to show that they acted reasonably.