To follow up on Assistant Commissioner Black's remarks, Mr. Chairman, we have that power under the Privacy Act. When the federal government claims solicitor-client privilege, we can review the documents only to see whether the privilege rightly adheres to the documents for which there's a complaint. That was not put into PIPEDA because for some reason it seemed to be an issue that was solved at that point. Nobody thought it was a problem, I understand, from the drafters. We're simply asking you to bring our powers on a level with those we already have on solicitor-client privilege for the public sector.
On February 22nd, 2007. See this statement in context.