It's a challenge we have all the time, Mr. Dhaliwal.
I remember in the early 1990s, departmental officials--I was a parliamentary secretary at that time--pointing out to me that technology had completely overtaken society in the area of child pornography. While it was a crime under the Canadian Criminal Code in 1990 to produce child pornography, it was also a crime to sell child pornography. But there was a whole other area that was developing because of changes in technologies: people who possessed child pornography on their computers neither made it nor was there any money being transferred between individuals. There was a huge gap, and technology created it.
I'll give you another example: identity theft. Again, we try to fill in these gaps. As I said, I was in Montreal when I made the announcement that we would be bringing forward legislation in the area of identity theft. A reporter said to me, “Is this your attempt to stay ahead of the bad guys?” I said, “Look, I just want to catch up with the bad guys.” We have to have legislation just to hold the line on these things, because the technology is changing very, very quickly.
It's a good point you're making. It's the challenge we have, not just with the legislation you're studying, but it's a challenge we have right across the board.