Mr. Speaker, based on my current understanding of Bill C-59, the Liberals want to create a legal framework to authorize the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to store sensitive big data or metadata on completely innocent Canadians, something the Supreme Court has come down on in the past.
As proof, consider the testimony of Daniel Therrien, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, who said:
We have seen real cases in which CSIS had in its bank of information the information about many people who did not represent a threat.
I have the same question as the commissioner, who asked the following as part of his testimony: is that the country we want to live in?