It's too easy to not let the Privacy Commissioner know what's going on.
I'm being oratorical to make points, and I'm exaggerating a little bit to make points. It's not as if nobody listens to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, but think of how many times she's done major reports--in June 2006 in particular--on reform of the Privacy Act, and the Ministry of Justice has done nothing. The most important audience, as far as I'm concerned, is Rob Nicholson, the Minister of Justice, who should tell the damn deputy to go do something.
You know the concept of being trapped by a paradigm or a certain way of thinking or a world view. We're all victims of that in any particular time period. There have been 25 years of the Privacy Commissioner's office. Some of the people sitting here have been there since the beginning in 1982. It's difficult to break out of a mindset that you're accustomed to.
My great friend Bruce Phillips would throw glasses at me for arguing that the Privacy Commissioner should have order-making power, because he thinks he could do it by just jawboning or talking. I don't think that's enough in 2008 or going forward.
I said to you somewhere that I'm not a futurist because I'm an historian. I don't know what kind of a privacy act you need for the next 25 years, but.... Sorry.