I think there are a couple of things that are very to important to reinforce. I know that we're talking a little bit about G-2 as well, which was introduced later on and apparently needs some fixing, but in the first argument the government had against this, they actually tried to use the Privacy Commissioner against the Privacy Commissioner. The Privacy Commissioner still stands by a suggested change for a lot of reasons and that hasn't altered.
The second part was to use the fear factor with Quebec, which has been diminished in all important aspects. The reality is that the former commissioner of information in Quebec noted an important distinction in regimes. This could provide more protection for Quebec through the Privacy Commissioner.
If we are going to move to some type of regulation, that also means taking this away from Parliament and putting it in the hands of others who are less independent. I cannot see, for the life of me, when we look at best practices, how it's then assumed that the Privacy Commissioner would have the worst practices. In fact, the Privacy Commissioner could actually have awesome practices; they could be quite different from those of the best practice argument. In some industries, in earlier times, best practices included things like seat belts being optional in cars. Those are different points in time where we've had a change, an altering. We have an important industry emerging here.
Again, I think it's a philosophical thing. I do not want to let this go back to the government. It was interesting to hear the arguments about this, to keep this in here, from organizations that have on their board of directors Loblaws, Sun Life, Private AI, Telus, Microsoft, TD Bank, BMO, CIBC, RBC, Rogers, Magna and MetroLinx, a whole bunch of other lawyers and so forth, and that was the primary discussion used to actually support this.
With that, I hope that we can move on to a vote. I think it's important that we have this philosophical point finished. I'm siding with the Privacy Commissioner, I'm siding with the public interest, I'm siding with that versus taking it out of our hands and giving influence to the backroom lobbying and other nefarious organizations that may not have the public interest at heart but have your information interest at heart.