I'll begin. I'll ask the assistant commissioner who's in charge of that in particular to answer that.
I think this paragraph refers to the fact that we think that Privacy Act reform involves public consultation, sector-wide consultation, because this is the basic personal info management framework of all the information Canadians give to the federal government.
We think it's long overdue for reform, to address some of the challenges that I suggested: the management of personal information within the Canadian government; the management of the information that, once we've given it to the government, the government then sends abroad to our neighbour to the south, for example; to give Canadians effective rights of redress; and to do things like address issues that were largely unheard of in 1983, such as covering DNA samples.
The act deals with a definition that was quite avant-garde at the time; it deals with recorded information. Well, if you keep a skin sample, it's not really recorded information; it's just a skin sample. But we have been saying this should be treated as if it's subject to the Privacy Act.
These are some of the examples of issues. Other issues have to do with the fact that we live in such a globalized, interconnected world, and unlike for PIPEDA, we restrict the rights that people have under the Privacy Act to people who basically have immigrant status in Canada. So visitors or people who are flying through Canada on their way somewhere else, then, don't have rights under the Privacy Act. Again, there's been an administrative arrangement to get around this so that Europeans can fly in and through and enjoy the reciprocal or same level of privacy protection.
Maybe I could ask the assistant commissioner...another big thing is the whole theme of data matching.