There are two things that I am sure of and that I've already spoken about: the entire problem with these marginal but numerous applications, and the importance of solving the problems of these frivolous, unnecessary, systematic applications, and so on. I think a very clear decision-making power and a power regarding compliance with new obligations could be conferred on the departments and agencies, particularly regarding the privacy assessment. The objective is to ensure that the Treasury Board directives that would become law would be inspected and for it to be possible, at the outset, to rule out problems and errors that, most of the time, result from the fact that there isn't any money to deal with that. So people forget, and those responsible for these matters do not concern themselves with them, very often because they are engineers from the outside, consultants who don't have this privacy culture, although things are changing now, since the private sector act.
On May 15th, 2008. See this statement in context.