Mr. Chair, there are a couple of things I'd mention on that front.
First of all, there's the work we did at the Treasury Board Secretariat going back a couple of years now, maybe three years, on the U.S.A. Patriot Act. There had been a complaint in B.C. regarding some employees, and the federal government became engaged because we were talking about the transfer of personal information. We got involved, our division got involved—because of its policy role in terms of sharing personal information—in developing some tools, some guidelines for government institutions when it comes to contracting and sharing information. We worked very closely with the Privacy Commissioner, and we issued a report, I believe just over a year ago maybe—years seem to come and go pretty quickly here—called Privacy Matters, in which we gave pretty solid policy direction on what should be done.
We're also working on additional guidelines and advice on transborder data flow. We've actually shared a document with the Privacy Commissioner on issuing guidelines on that, and we're still going back and forth. It's obviously an area that's sensitive, and I think everyone's aware of that, so we're just trying to be as careful as we can.