I don't think it's premature. I think the five-year statutory review is a good thing. However--and I'm not sure this is going to answer your question--I think it is going to be difficult to separate out, when you see problems with the legislation or the implementation of privacy policy, whether it has to do with the statute or whether it has to do with the way the statute has been interpreted by the Privacy Commissioner or overseen by the Privacy Commissioner, or whether it has to do with the larger context since September 11, 2001, and the extraordinary pressures as a result of that to capture personal information. We'll help you try to sort through those issues as best we can, but we can't let this hearing go by without mentioning 9/11 and the fact that the world for privacy changed at that point.
Nevertheless, I do think you will hear some very practical recommendations about how you can tinker with the legislation to make it more effective, to clarify certain provisions and to help not only individuals to understand their privacy rights, but also businesses to know what they have to do. My perception is that the vast majority of businesses in this country understand the issue, get it, and just want some clear advice on how to comply, and there are ways the legislation can be amended in order to effect that.