Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Likely, most of the names you got from our parliamentary secretary came from me. I don't mind having them lumped together on a panel. I do take a little bit of exception. The Privacy Commissioner provided us a list of quick fixes, but we haven't looked at this for 25 years, as parliamentarians. I think we thought it was sort of an easy way to look at these ones first. It doesn't preclude us from looking at deeper things.
My thinking was that most of these fixes are for government agencies and government organizations that relate to the Privacy Act and are not necessarily third parties. But there are a number of third parties that deal with government that I'd like to hear from. For example, I had on the list the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police; the RCMP, which we had heard from; and the Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime. Those are the kinds of things.... I'm not sure what government information they have and whether the Privacy Act would affect their ability to do their work, or help them do their work.
There are two other areas I'm interested in. We have a heavily regulated banking industry in this country. Maybe that's coming from my finance committee. I'm not sure. We could hear from anyone in the banking insurance area--there doesn't have to be one meeting for each--to make sure that I have an understanding of whether what we're doing here for privacy has any effect on that industry and the private sector. It could be a panel group. Unless we invite them, we don't know whether they'll even come or not. Right? They could say “Look, it doesn't affect us, and we're not interested”, which is fair.
I had a few others, but the other group I'm particularly interested in is the Canadian Medical Association on medical records and anything to do with personal information that has to do with people's.... Hospitals aren't private sector and they're not public sector. The medical field is a little quasi.... I'm not sure exactly how you'd phrase that.
Those are the three areas, Mr. Chair, I'd be interested in. I may not have all the answers in terms of who those guests might be. Other lists may produce other, better guests, but the medical area, the banking and financial institutions area, and the crime and criminal side are the three I think we should try to see before we make any decisions.
And of course we haven't debated this as a group. We may agree or disagree with the quick-fix recommendations, as she calls them, or we may say this is obviously a bigger project than we thought, and we do need to take more time to do it properly. I just put that out for the record.
Thank you.