Thank you.
I would then like to move down to the areas where we're not recommending any changes and briefly explain to you why.
On the issue of the commissioner's powers, I maintain my position that this is not the time, given all the upheaval in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and given the fact that we are one of the agents of Parliament and closely linked to other agents of Parliament legislatively, to do a wholesale change in the office.
The act, as it is presently constituted, has a number of powers. We've not had time to use all of them, so I would recommend the status quo on that.
You heard that the process of designating investigative bodies is seen by many as long and cumbersome. I'm not in a position to deny that it is. But I think the opposite—having no regulation and no approval process for investigative bodies—means that we have an open season for self-appointed detective agencies, spy agencies, and so on. It's a very good thing that the federal government has some process for regulating these: they would be operating until somebody made a complaint or somehow they came to our attention, which is very difficult in a country as large as Canada.
Blanket consent has not really been an issue at all, so we suggest we simply pass on that one.
Heather, could you talk about work product and our position on that?