Mr. Speaker, the opposition has spent the last week deprecating Canadian security agencies on the front line.
However, the previous Conservative government left CSIS without clear legal protections under the Criminal Code. It put our security in a muddle with the Constitution. It provided no framework for dealing with datasets. It left Canada trailing behind on cyber-safety. It did nothing on prevention, and it reduced the budget for our security agencies by more than $1 billion.
There are no lessons to be learned from the Conservative government.