Mr. Speaker, it is exactly the rights of law-abiding Canadian citizens that the charter of rights is there to protect. Those are the rights of innocent people we are trying to protect from the invasion or intrusion of the taking of samples without any conviction and on suspicion only of a police officer or a crown attorney. The government is proposing in this bill that the samples be taken only after conviction so that the rights and liberties of those innocent law abiding Canadians are protected.
In the House of Commons on September 29th, 1998. See this statement in context.