Information & Ethics committee  My surprise did not relate to the fact that the police have technologies to intercept communications in the context of investigations. Traditionally these tools were somewhat limited. Wiretaps, again, intercept a specific communication. It is the intrusiveness of the tool that su

Information & Ethics committee  I accept that. I accept that encryption, although it has many benefits for society protecting the privacy of communications of ordinary Canadians, commercial transactions and the like, can pose serious challenges for law enforcement. I accept that. As I said in my opening state

Information & Ethics committee  I served between 2014 and 2022.

Information & Ethics committee  I was surprised by the tool itself, by how intrusive it is, and that it was used for so long. Certainly, there have been many discussions over the years—as the RCMP said yesterday, probably since the early 2000s—on the lawful access issue. Both in my term as commissioner and when

Information & Ethics committee  It's a complicated question. I would say, as Commissioner Dufresne said yesterday, that I would have looked at—as he will—the detailed conditions under which this tool would be used to see whether there were any recommendations to be made on how it would be used beyond the four c

Information & Ethics committee  You asked yesterday whether judges who receive requests for judicial authorization have the technical.... They certainly have the legal expertise, or they have the technical expertise to make the best decisions, I'm assuming. I heard yesterday in testimony from the government—I t

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for inviting me to testify as part of the important study you are conducting further to the June 22 publication of the government's response to a question that MP Tako Van Popta asked regarding mobile device