When I circulated my paper to the Ontario commissioner, to my friends.... I know all these commissioners. I work with them. I do consulting work for them. They employ me to do things. In fact, I think the Privacy Commissioner can and should use more consultants and law firms to help her when she has huge backlogs. There are lots of people with privacy expertise in these places, and consultants.
How's that for a self-interested statement? I already do work for these various commissioners.
At any rate, she has a staff of about 100 or 120. It's a big operation. She has the entire health sector, the municipalities, and the provincial government in Ontario. She's a leader in very many ways on critical issues, such as RFIDs, biometric encryption, and all this stuff.
Under PHIPA she has much broader order-making power. What happens is that the later the law, the better and the more power there is to it. PHIPA, the Personal Health Information Protection Act, was enacted in 2004. You'll be amused to know that it's 120 pages long, and the non-legal guide to it is 800 pages long. I might try to tell you all this stuff is pretty simple, but it's simple at the ten privacy commandments stuff; it gets more complicated when you apply it in practice.
Her job is to apply these rules in a sophisticated way by doing investigations and things like that....
As I said, I have a bit of jet lag. I've lost track of what you actually asked me.