In the RCMP documents on Project Wide Awake, they have a [Technical difficulty—Editor] their officers, “You have zero privacy anyway, get over it.” It suggests to me a disregard for the law. As well, the RCMP took the position that they weren't responsible for the fact that Clearview AI, as a private sector partner, broke the law. If they were using it, it wasn't their problem. You stated, “In our view, a government institution simply cannot collect personal information from a third party agent if that third party's collection was unlawful in the first place.” That would seem to me to be a pretty clear reading of what Canadian law should be, and yet they seem to think they weren't obligated.
We have this new law, Bill C-11, which is supposed to clarify the uses of technology, but Minister Bill Blair, when I asked him about this, said they were certainly looking to give the police tools to use. Are you concerned that Bill C-11 would allow the RCMP to ignore these basic principles of privacy law and would allow them to contract with third party operators like Clearview AI?