Mr. Flaherty, earlier you talked about these ten commandments that apply to the private sector. One of them was consent. You referred to it as the law of “adultery”.
In my last set of questions, we talked about Stats Canada. You seemed to suggest that Canadians should not necessarily be required to give their consent because Stats Canada does such a really good job of protecting their privacy.
Would it be fair to say that this requirement for consent has a different standard when it applies to the government from when it applies to the private sector? Because the government is a different institution--it's there to serve the community and doesn't have private economic interests--is there a different standard?