Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I simply want to respond to Mr. Martin's comments.
Let me be clear. The motion I'm moving is that this committee commence a study that would have as its purpose a comprehensive review of the Privacy Act, period.
The legislation that was introduced yesterday dealing with identity theft deals with the criminal aspects of identity theft. In my understanding, that particular legislation will be going before the justice committee. But there are other aspects to identity theft, to no-fly lists, to the sharing of cross-border personal information, to RFID technology, that fall within the Privacy Act and are of an urgent nature.
Technology is moving very quickly. We heard from the commissioner earlier this week about the urgency of addressing these issues because of the impact they're having on our culture and on our values.
There's clearly an impetus to investigate these matters. I appreciate the support that's been offered by Mr. Hubbard and the Liberals. I think there is an urgent nature to this. I would ask all members to support it, and we'll leave it to the steering committee to decide in what order we deal with these issues.