Mr. Chairman, thank you.
I want to thank the honourable member, Madame Freeman, for wanting to assist us in carrying out the Conservative Party election platform. I'm sure that will come up again in other discussions.
But I wanted to respond directly to your point on the wording “drawing on the work of the Information Commissioner Mr. John Reid” and the fact you pointed out that it doesn't say “exclusively”. My understanding of interpretation is that if you refer to something specifically then that necessarily suggests you're excluding other things you didn't specifically refer to. So the preferable way to word that motion would be to remove the words “drawing on the work of the Information Commissioner”, because that leads people to the conclusion that that is all you want to have in the legislation that would be proposed. I disagree with that interpretation and I think we have to be careful in the way we word these things. Obviously lots of other views need to be taken into account in proposing any kind of new legislation like this.