Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, the tone of your opening remarks sort of leads me to believe that the Privacy Act isn't really your top priority. Perhaps you might even have difficulty with the ten—what we thought were fairly straightforward, almost innocuous—recommendations of the Privacy Commissioner in terms of the bare minimum that needed to be done to really update the Privacy Act. So both the tone and the content of your remarks kind of worry me. We don't want to spin our wheels here and go through the exercise of reviewing the Privacy Act if you don't really have any intention of implementing it. The same would apply for the Access to Information Act, I suppose.
I don't want to put Mr. Tilson into a tizzy here, so I'll limit my remarks to the Privacy Act.
For instance, what I thought was one of the most common sense, innocuous recommendations from the Privacy Commissioner was one where she identified that there's been sort of a creep in the collection of personal information; it's expanded. So she wants a necessity test. For a government department to justify the collection of personal information like that, it should have to state exactly and specifically what for, in the narrowest possible way. Is that one of the recommendations you could see fit to approve?