When you look at all of these, it seems as if we're trying to give the commissioner additional powers. With the Privacy Act, as it was defined and as it's being applied across Canada, are there situations where there are too many protections to the individual versus society's best interests? How, as legislators, can we develop a balance between what society needs and the rights of the individual in terms of that privacy?
For example, today people go before the courts and it's ordered that DNA should be taken from them and filed in a registry. We've never really established that registry. Are there too many rights for the individual, as opposed to the rights of society to know which people are dangers to society and should be included in a public record for police forces or public people across the country?
Another example is the terrible tragedy at Virginia Tech, where somebody thought they had no right to warn the public of a person who was unstable, and that person created a great episode and tremendous tragedy. What rights does society have to overcome individual rights that would be protected by the privacy legislation?