I have a whole shtick about how important it is for people to be sensitive to privacy as a human right, to be concerned. One of the good things these privacy commissioners have done is to give parents kits for their kids and training for schools about being careful with Facebook, and about giving out information on the phone and things like that as part of general education.
I actually believe that at the end of the day, everybody has to be their own privacy commissioner. I'll leave that idea with you. You shouldn't simply depend on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to protect your privacy interests, but if there's a problem, you should be going to the Privacy Commissioner to make a complaint. Then you should expect her, in the highly sophisticated areas such as what Statistics Canada or Revenue Canada are actually doing with our personal information.... Despite saying they're going to do X, are they doing Y? Who's checking on that? Who's the inspector?