Mr. Speaker, this bill is all about expanding powers, but there are no improvements to oversight. The Conservative record speaks for itself, because four years after promising to fix critical gaps in national security oversight across federal departments, the Conservatives have done absolutely nothing. In fact, they have actually weakened oversight by shutting down the CSIS inspector general, so how can they now expect Canadians to trust them on this sweeping and overreaching legislation?
In the House of Commons on February 26th, 2015. See this statement in context.