That helps me segue into another issue I had.
Health information has just recently been added to the obligations here under PIPEDA. In 2002, I believe, the act was extended to cover health information. A lot of us, in reading about PIPEDA, seem to feel that it was hastily thrown together to comply with the European Union's demand that in order to trade e-commerce information, the nation you're trading with must put in place legislation comparable to the Europeans' data protection directive, which they implemented in 1995. They said if you're going to play ball with us, you have to have comparable, similar protection or we're not going to share information.
Well, in the province of Manitoba, the Tories sold the Manitoba health data services crown corporation to a private outfit. That private outfit then, of course, as private companies do, got sold to a company in Houston, Texas; that company got sold to a company in Denver, Colorado. My personal health information is now out of the country.
Do you know of any American protection, comparable and similar to the EU's data protection directive and Canada's PIPEDA, that would give me confidence that my health information isn't being sold to Pfizer so that they can crank out advertisements or something?