Let's suppose someone discloses a list of information including 250,000 social insurance numbers with names and a set of information. Are there any fines? Can a citizen say that you lost his personal information and that there will be costs? There's also increasing talk about identity theft. That's what I want to get to, identity theft. If we can't protect those who have information... When I buy a car, I don't have the choice of whether to say who I am in order to get the keys. I have to give my name, my address, my telephone number, my mother's name, my bank account number and my social insurance number. That's normal; a $30,000 vehicle is being entrusted to me. Once the dealer has that information, which I give it confidentially, if it isn't careful enough—
Evidence of meeting #31 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was institutions.
A recording is available from Parliament.