The sketch: Meta-answers about metadata  CSEC might not be doing
anything to worry about, but more oversight might be in order
anyway  On the morning after the CBC reported that the
Communications Security Establishment was using airport wi-fi to
track Canadian travellers, the Defence Minister was asked
“why this agency was tracking and spying on Canadians in our
airports.”  “Mr. Speaker,” Rob Nicholson said, “it is my
understanding that CSEC made it clear to the CBC that nothing in
the documents they had obtained showed that Canadian
communications were targeted, collected or used, nor that
travellers’ movements were tracked.”  You might notice that this
is not actually a direct answer to the question asked. (He would
come vaguely closer a little while later.)  CSEC’s own statement
on the matter clarified that “no Canadian or foreign travellers
were tracked” and “no Canadian communications were, or are,
targeted, collected or used.” But the agency had also noted that
“in order to fulfill this key foreign int