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  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  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