My critics would tell you I'm not well informed about any of the above.
I would say that I've come to the privacy issue from a technological perspective. What I have found in the five years I have been the chair and in the about ten years I've been at the University of Ottawa focusing on these issues is that if you're going to focus on the digital environment and on emerging technologies, things like copyright and telecommunications and fundamental things like privacy are inseparable. They form a core part of this emerging environment, so you have to focus on it.
Between the Privacy Act and PIPEDA, as I alluded to in my remarks, I'm more familiar with PIPEDA than I am with the Privacy Act. I've been on the Privacy Commissioner's advisory board for a couple of years, and in the course of its meetings and in being the closing speaker at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Montreal last fall, I have become so aware of the importance of the Privacy Act, as I mentioned, that I felt it was appropriate to come and speak to it, because so much of what the Privacy Commissioner is concerned with becomes so essential.