Thanks, Mr. Chair.
I think number four is very significant. Really, we're dealing with the two pieces of legislation you deal with. Then we have the provinces involved. We have the charter.
Yesterday in the House a question was asked about a recent Supreme Court decision on privacy, with a school and an individual who was apparently at a bus depot. This week we had the privacy debate in our own newspaper, with the student at Carleton University, I believe it was. Then you have the situation with airlines, which is probably outside your mandate. For example, there was the person who was tasered in Vancouver. When his mother went to the airport.... As a mother, as a brother, or sister, if you went to the Air Canada or whatever desk and they couldn't tell you whether or not that passenger was on the plane....
When we look at situations like that, how, as a committee, can we try to look to some solutions that might avoid problems?
It seems rather difficult that a very senior person at the university is being contradicted by somebody else about the interpretation of privacy. Is it because we don't know which piece of legislation, provincially or federally, is being applied? Where can we attempt to give the public good information on the privacy rights of individuals but also address the concerns that maybe a mother from British Columbia has about a Polish son who can't speak English coming into the airport in Vancouver?
How can we overcome those kinds of situations?