The commissioner has no ability to make law or make regulation or make orders. She is an ombudsman, a privacy advocate. She gives guidance. She does have the power to publicize--which, if you noticed earlier in our discussions, s a very powerful one--to compel compliance with her opinions, but it's certainly open to a company to say it's not going to do what she has said she thinks the act means. The only way she could get a change would be to come back to Parliament. She is an officer of Parliament, as you know, not a government official. And the only way to do that would be to come back to Parliament and make a recommendation for Parliament to take action. That's the only way she could achieve a change.
On December 4th, 2006. See this statement in context.