Yes, and I'll talk about the Public Complaints Commission because that's the number one watchdog.
As you know, with the recent O'Connor report and stuff like that, in the near future the RCMP will have an oversight committee and a governance structure. Throughout Canada your municipal boards, police boards, and committees can take action long before it gets to the Privacy Commissioner if somebody misuses the information.
I often think we're the defenders of human rights and protect basic privileges. Along with all that oversight are the number of regulations we fall within that allow us to take immediate action against anybody who violates the trust we have been given through PIPEDA, and ask for that information. If that information is not in line with the execution of their duties, a number of regulations and guidelines allow us to discipline an individual for outright breach and, depending on the severity of what they exchanged, determine the level of sanction against the individual.
Under our new commissioner, the direction to the Privacy Commissioner on public complaints is that our books are open. They can have access to see if there's any abuse. The Auditor General, who has been in to our organization on numerous occasions, represents the best interests of Canadians as a whole. She has never identified that we've misused this type of information.
So in light of what you've asked, the answer is yes.