Yes, both of them are cases of what I was discussing with the previous honourable member; that is, they are in fact policies. Obviously the Government of Canada has a security policy and Treasury Board has breach notification guidelines. Again, we don't hear much about problems with data being lost or misused in the public sector, but we know there are some problems. We know them often from the media. Occasionally we'll hear something from the government itself. But again, there's a kind of momentum, as I was describing to you about going to Federal Court. If you put this into a law and you say there are breach notification guidelines and that they have to inform the privacy minister when there's a breach notification, I am hoping this will mean that these issues will be taken more seriously and that there will be fewer stolen laptops with citizens' information found under bridges, as we reported a couple of years ago.
On May 11th, 2009. See this statement in context.