As a result of the virtually global movement of personal information, that volume wasn't anticipated when the act was drafted in 1998. I don't have a clear directive in the act for dealing with my counterparts to solve potential problems. I'd like a change so that the act would give me a general scale to determine whether it's in the public interest to go and talk about even the details of a complaint brought before me with a counterpart in the European Union, for example, whether it's in the interest of Canadians' privacy.
On November 27th, 2006. See this statement in context.