I'll let Randy talk a bit further, but let me just say that we're simply saying that this has worked extremely well in the British Columbia legislation. We're asking for nothing else but the dispositions that are now in the B.C. legislation. I think they will work federally as well.
I think it's very clear that we are not talking about employee information. If there's information about an employee, that's personal information. What we are talking about is all kinds of statistics that businesses generate about the products and services they provide. If you want to have a competitive economy, you have to make sure that is out there in the public domain, accessible, so we can have companies that learn from successes, build on those, and improve their products and services. Otherwise, you're going to potentially be creating a bunch of oligopolies in this country.
From an economic policy point of view, it is fundamental that information about a company's products and services generated in the course of doing business be accessible and not be considered personal information.
I draw a totally stark distinction between that and the employee information that the commissioner might be referring to.