That's not what we mean by work product information. I think personal information is clearly defined in the legislation as information that relates to an identifiable individual. There are all kinds of other pieces of information that do not permit you to identify the individual.
I'll give you an example of what we're talking about. Let's take the health care industry. It's very important for lots of businesses out there to be able to have access to information that says they're seeing this number of patients in the system; this is the average cost of the services that are being provided; these services are being provided in these geographical locations. That's important for them to be able to build better services, improve services, and—I want to just answer Mr. Van Kesteren's question—this is more important than ever to small business in this country.
I'll tell you, if you don't distinguish work product information, and if the commissioner tells us some day that we can't have work product information—because her latest statement is along those lines—you are going to be shutting down access to small businesses all over the country that want to know what the big guys are doing so that they can compete better against them. That's essentially what it is. It's information that is not identifiable. It is commercial information and it is information that other actors in the economy need to be able to create, innovate, and improve products and services. We don't believe you should use privacy legislation to restrict that type of access.
Now the flip side of the coin, because there are two sides of the coin, is that when someone says, “I want access to my personal file”, of course we'll give them the file that contains their personal information. But what we're saying is that this file shouldn't contain the work product information that has nothing to do with that identifiable individual.
Those are the two sides of the coin, and I really think it is fundamental for a competitive economy in Canada that we make that distinction. If there's one change you make with this legislation, that's the one I'd recommend.