“Comfortable” sounds like kind of a luxury that as Privacy Commissioner of Canada I don't think is a concept that fits the state of mind. No, I don't feel comfortable.
Technology is constantly changing. We have a huge challenge to try to take a law and the civil service structures and the state they're in and be flexible, proactive, and so on, to meet the challenge. It's not comfortable.
I think we have to be extremely vigilant. And we are stretched, as are commissioners throughout the world, to try to meet these challenges. If you look at what's happening in terms of Internet privacy--and we'll come back to that on Tuesday--the world is just moving so fast.
That being said, I don't think I am hampered in my budget in trying to meet those challenges. The challenges have to do with knowledge acquisition; forming a plan to deal with new challenges; having the team and the members we need on the team; and reacting with speed, which is always a challenge in a bureaucracy--and I don't say that ironically. I think in any big organization within or outside the government, reacting quickly is always a problem. We see a fragmented world in which the actors now can be individuals with computers and websites.