What is the test for obtaining a Canadian search warrant for a letter of request from a Canadian attorney general?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Giles, 2015 BCSC 1744 (CanLII):
Schreiber v. Canada (Attorney General), 1998 CanLII 828 (SCC), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 841 [Schreiber], addressed the issue of the application of the Charter to letters of request for assistance between nations. The issue was whether the Canadian standard for the issuance of a search warrant must be satisfied before the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of Canada submitted a letter of request seeking to search and seize banking documents and records.
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