Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to direct my question to you, Ms. Ireland. In your presentation, you actually were quite outspoken on the issue of what I'll call outsourcing, for lack of a better word, or the notion that companies will take what is in some cases personal information and will use a third-party contractor who may be out of country.
PIPEDA currently allows that under the fourth paragraph of section 4.1 of schedule 1, and essentially says that companies or organizations would have to assure, by contract or other means, that these third-party organizations would provide at the very least a comparable level of protection for those types of services.
We had testimony from the Canadian Bankers Association, for example, that talked about the fact that outsourcing is a reality now, and that it in fact makes business more competitive. By extension, that provides more competitive prices for consumers.
Are you objecting to it just on principle? Could you reflect a little bit on why that would be so objectionable if these third-party companies provide that same level of protection?