I would like to comment on that, if you'd let me. I came to hear the commissioner speak, and I also heard Commissioner Loukidelis from British Columbia speak. I've also been sort of following what's been going on online with people who are discussing these proceedings on blogs.
I would love to put forward my take on this, because I think I heard it differently from how some people have been talking about it subsequently. What I heard the commissioner say was that at the moment she is not in favour of order-making powers, and she was very clear that she was open to the idea of potentially wanting them. Further, she said that this is not the right time for her to have order-making powers. She also alluded to some things that some people might have interpreted as having to do with some of the transitions, which have taken place in that office, over the past several years.
I also heard Commissioner Loukidelis describe the order-making power as a power of last resort, which I believe some people around this table misunderstood as him somehow denigrating as an unnecessary power. I think a power of last resort is an extremely important power. When a tightrope walker walks on the tightrope and the safety net is the instrument of last resort, just because it's the last resort doesn't mean it's any less important. In fact, it's potentially the most important instrument.
So I would be careful to draw conclusions from the fact that when she was a commissioner in Quebec, she had order-making power and because she is now the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and has suggested that this is not the time for order-making power, that this means order-making power is inappropriate.
As a manager, she recognizes that the office has been through a tremendous amount of turmoil in the last several years, and she takes the position, like my colleagues over here, that maybe it's too soon for these powers. I want to be very clear that it's not at all the case that she has in any way suggested that she is against the idea of order-making power.