Justice committee  Thank you for the question. One of the reasons the federal legislation focuses on Internet service providers, aside from the reasons the minister just articulated, is that under the criminal law power, we have to be restrictive about who we target. There are three things in m

Justice committee  The provinces enacted their legislation under their jurisdiction for child and family services, which is much broader than the criminal law, and they were able to target every person who resides in the province. It was problematic for the federal government to expand it to that e

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Minister. Just to address the computer data issue, the definition we're using is very similar to the one currently in the Criminal Code, and it's to cover as broad a scope as possible to include any information that would be computer-data-related to an offence und

Justice committee  The provision requires them to safeguard that evidence--

Justice committee  --for 21 days, and police would be required to obtain a warrant or a production order in order to obtain those things. But yes, it would cover any electronic file, including image files or any transaction logs.

Justice committee  Thanks for the question, Mr. Lee. The definition of Internet service provider is to capture as many people as possible who provide Internet services to the public. So this includes e-mail service providers, as you've indicated, but it's—

Justice committee  I'm basically trying to clarify that it only applies to e-mail service providers, so—

Justice committee  In clause 3, which you're referring to, that duty?

Justice committee  If a person is advised in the course of providing an Internet service to the public—

Justice committee  Right.

Justice committee  I can see your interpretation from what you're saying, but the bill is not targeting individuals of the public, it is targeting people who provide an Internet service to the public, so including—

Justice committee  Well, in terms of clause 3, the policy intent is clearly to cover people who provide this service to the public.

Justice committee  Right.

Justice committee  I'd also like to thank you for your interjection here, because this is something that our provincial–territorial colleagues have pointed out to us as well. The intention of clause 10 was to relate only to the reporting requirements under clause 3, but they feared that it might al

Justice committee  On the issue of peace officer, it's an articulation that is becoming more common, and it will also be spelled out in the regulations as to who exactly a report goes to. We have also heard some other concerns about the articulation that is currently in this bill, so we can certain