Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale answers a question during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Monday, Jan.30. ( Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS )OTTAWA–Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has ordered a review into a CSIS metadata program that illegally stored data on innocent Canadians for almost a decade. “The work that CSIS did was all based upon the considered legal opinions that they had from the Department of Justice,” Goodale told the Star in an interview. When asked if he would authorize a program like ODAC again on Thursday, Goodale said he wanted to wait until the joint review of the program was complete. NDP public safety critic Matthew Dubé, who requested the information from CSIS, questioned CSIS’s inability to provide the number of people the service has stored metadata on.

Source: thestar February 02, 2017 23:06 UTC