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Gwen Boniface

  • Senator
  • Independent Senators Group
  • Ontario
  • May/3/22 2:00:00 p.m.

Hon. Gwen Boniface: Thank you very much. I raised in my speech similar considerations that needed to be had around the threshold, but I do want to make sure that the Court of Appeal’s paragraph 75 was clear. I want to ask if you would agree that this is in fact what paragraph 75 of the Canfield ruling said that in their view:

 . . . the threshold for the search of electronic devices may be something less than the reasonable grounds to suspect required for a strip search under the Customs Act. . . .

and that:

Whether the appropriate threshold is reasonable suspicion, or something less than that having regard to the unique nature of the border, will have to be decided by Parliament and fleshed out in other cases. . . .

Is it not clear to you in Canfield that they were giving the range for Parliament to make a decision around that? Am I correct?

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