Comment: The precise words Doucet used were certainly indelicate and ill-advised, but the sentiment is totally understandable: Snowden's leaks were extremely damaging to Canada and the US' security and have only aided criminals, terrorists and hostile nations in evading detection so that they can do more bad things with a freer hand. 

Most Canadians support having their government carry out robust surveillance against hostile actors. How do I know? Voters had the option of elevating the NDP, which is the anti-security, anti-surveillance, and anti-counterterrorism choice, to power in October 2015, but instead gave it resoundingly to one of Canada's two centrist parties, which despite their ideological differences basically do agree that the country needs to be at the cutting edge when it comes to national security.