Information & Ethics committee  I'm happy to stay.

Information & Ethics committee  The OPC has employees who are security cleared. This was made clear to national security and law enforcement, who understand that. Yes, these steps were taken.

Information & Ethics committee  Before deploying ODITs?

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know. I heard Minister Mendicino say that this would be an operational issue as opposed to a policy or legislative issue. It may be that the RCMP decided to deploy the tool as an operational matter without informing or seeking authorization from the minister of the day. I

Information & Ethics committee  I did not know, the OPC did not know, that the police were using this tool, so no, we were never consulted on this in the past.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  I've referred frequently during the last few minutes to court oversight. Court oversight, ex post facto oversight, whether by the courts or the OPC, is necessary, but it is far preferable for privacy to be baked into processes that lead to the use of particularly intrusive techno

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, and I would—

Information & Ethics committee  I agree, but again, I encourage you to give not very prescriptive definitions to these concepts but some general definition.

Information & Ethics committee  I would again encourage you to clarify the law. If you want more transparency, make it a legal requirement and define the concept. Speaking about the RCMP for instance, the RCMP's premise, and perhaps that was behind the minister's answer yesterday, is to try to be transparent bu

Information & Ethics committee  That's a difficult question to answer in the abstract. I believe Mr. Delisle was convicted, and therefore, the court in question certainly had to be confident of the admissibility of the evidence against the accused. Again, there's important judicial oversight. I will leave it

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think it is the role of the OPC to second-guess the courts on individual cases, particularly on an active investigation. Again, the type of review that the OPC should be doing would be at the programmatic level, not at the individual case level, and certainly not while an

Information & Ethics committee  I didn't have any evidence, but let's say I had my doubts.