There are some reasons, which I'm not going to go into in public, why I've been doing less federal work the last couple of years than I did from 1991 to 2003 or 2004. The best examples I can use are from the provinces and territories. You should be aware that Manitoba announced last week that it was finally going to set up a proper privacy commissioner and, to the best of my understanding, take the power away from the ombudsman, who had too many other things to do, and give the Privacy Commissioner of Manitoba regulatory power. I think that's considerable progress. There's an excellent privacy commissioner in Saskatchewan, who doesn't have regulatory order-making power, and he would love to have it, because he can't do much when records are found in boxes on the street, or patients' records are found all over the place.
What we don't hear about, because they are very technical breaches, is the number of times data that has identifiers on it is disclosed--personal health numbers, for example, and things that should not have been disclosed--because of sloppiness or human error. So going back to the point you were making earlier, I want as many privacy-enhancing technologies as possible.
As I may have already said to you, I want machines watching machines. I want that, as do the banks. The banks are just bringing this in now. If a teller in Prince George is always communicating with Rimouski, something's wrong, because most of our customers should be up there. If a nurse in the genetics department is always looking up people in emergency, there's something odd there. Using an electronic system, we can monitor that, and a security person or a privacy person working for the organization could check it out. It could be like a TILDE system.
So this is the way we can use technology that already exists to audit and to monitor transactions. The Social Security Administration in the U.S. and American Express have done that kind of thing for a long time. My understanding is that the Canadian banks are just bringing in more of that kind of monitoring.