Mr. Sauvageau, I do not believe that the issues are the same as they are under the Access to Information Act. In the long term, Parliament should consider amending both acts based on the principles, rather than on the fact of designating certain corporations or not, given the public/private sector mix that we often find in many federal organizations.
The PIPEDA provides a rather high level of protection for personal information. This legislation contains requirements in terms of organization, transparency, accountability, and redress measures, but nothing of the sort is included in the current Privacy Act. The burden imposed on these three crown corporations would be lighter than the burden on their competitors or colleagues in the private sector governed by the same act.