Richard Bilodeau at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

June 16th, 2026 / 5:20 p.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, National and Cyber Security Branch, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

I'll go to my colleagues from the RCMP.

When you're going to a court to apply for a production order on “reasonable grounds to believe”, there's a robust process to draft up affidavits and get a judge to sign off on that.

As to what that means in practice, I'll go to Sergeant Gilkes.

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