Yes. Perhaps I could direct the committee to look at the history of my office's experience under PIPEDA, where we have slightly more powers to deal in a more summary fashion than we do under the Privacy Act, and the relationship between those powers and the number of complainants going to the Federal Court. There are very few. I think right now, in terms of active complainants in the Federal Court where we're not involved, from memory we might have maybe five or six. These are people who go on to Federal Court. In recent years--I hope I'm not being inaccurate--I think almost all of them have lost or withdrawn their cases; the court did not find their cases had merit. I don't think that is a huge burden on the public purse. Of these six cases, let's say there are perhaps three now where we're active. Most of them are people going on their own, so there would be no cost via my office.
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