Mr. Speaker, in terms of the key principles that should be involved in one of these deals, members of the European Commission talked about the purpose limitation principle.
At transport committee the Minister of Public Safety strongly indicated this information would be used only for security purposes.
However, in a subsequent document from the U.S. ambassador, it became clear that this information could be used for whatever purpose the U.S. government chooses. The information about the passengers on the aircraft could be used for criminal purposes, for security purposes, for any purpose that the U.S. government deemed important.
How could the government go ahead without putting some safeguards against the cross-purpose use of this information?