It might surprise you, given some of the positions I've taken, that I'm a great fan of research and public health surveillance, and big research projects. I have some wonderful clients at UBC who are doing wonderful work in child care, child protection, and things like that, the monitoring of children's health and vision and hearing over time. I simply make sure their privacy house is in order, which is the important component, so there will be no privacy problems that emerge when the work goes forward.
I dislike intensely being telephoned at home by people I don't want to hear from, so I can't wait to get on the do-not-call list. Michael Geist from the University of Ottawa set up his own do-not-call list, and I jumped on it the first day. I do recognize the importance of market research, of political polling, of Ipsos Reid finding out what Canadians think about this, that, and the other thing. There is a bit of a fine line. Some people love getting phone calls. Some people love getting junk mail, and that's an individual right. I used to complain more about junk mail than I do now, because between my mailbox and my office there's a garbage can, and I dump what I don't want to look at into the garbage can.
That's not much of an answer, and I really don't have anything very intelligent to say about the do-not-call business. As in everything else, there's a balance. We have to have a balance between our privacy interests and law enforcement, between our privacy interests and national security, between the need to give information to get health care and confidence that it's going to be properly protected when we give it out.
Actually, I should have given you some health care examples. That would have been easier, because that's what I work in most of the time.