Thank you, Chair.
We all got a copy of the minister's response. It was so much like the response we got on the good work we did on the Access to Information Act, as far as the tone is concerned. Paragraphs were taken from one letter to the other--they were identically phrased.
In reading it I was looking for some ray of hope, because we did a lot of good work on the Privacy Act, and as the chair pointed out, it's the tenth report. I thought it was a very serious study that didn't get the response it merited. The Privacy Commissioner also confessed to a measure of disappointment about the government's response to the committee's report.
Therefore, I would like to move a motion that mirrors pretty much the motion we adopted on the response to the Access to Information Act. The motion is that the committee report to the House its profound disappointment with the response of the Minister of Justice to its tenth report entitled “The Privacy Act: First Steps Towards Renewal”, and that the committee recommend to the government that it introduce in the House, no later than March 30, 2010, a new Privacy Act that would reflect the committee's proceedings and recommendations.