Certainly.
Addressing the last point, about health care information and health privacy, there's a considerable investment now underway in creating pan-Canadian electronic health records. There is a challenge, of course, in ensuring that the privacy approaches in the various jurisdictions within Canada are brought into line.
There has been a considerable amount of work done. My federal colleague, Jennifer Stoddart, has worked with federal departments, for example, in creating an interpretive guide to PIPEDA in the health care setting. There's a federal-provincial-territorial harmonization framework on health privacy that is meant to promote harmonization so that the electronic health record initiative can move forward.
Difficult decisions are being taken across the country about the appropriate balance between the public interest in the sharing of personal information for health care delivery, to ensure innovation, research, and appropriate allocation of resources, and the private interest in one's health information. Where that balance lies I think is a dynamic balance, and not really my place to say.
I know in British Columbia certainly there are extensive discussions underway, and the government is being consulted on those. Among the issues being discussed is how technological tools can help individuals ensure that the most sensitive of their personal health information is directed only to those health care professionals who really need to know it for delivery of a particular service to that individual.