No, I think with what they know now, they're concerned and they're not satisfied with how their personal information is protected. One indicator of that is the tremendous interest in recent years in the work of my office, both in the public and the private sector.
Parents are worried about their children's privacy because the children spend all their time online now. We've got eight million Canadians on Facebook, and it's not clear where their information is going once it's on Facebook. That's one of our ongoing investigations. People are worried about their personal information being stolen. ID theft is rampant, unfortunately. I've mentioned ID theft issues before this committee in the past and have ongoing recommendations that we amend the Criminal Code and that we pass anti-spam legislation.
Canadians who can't afford expensive software updating packages are exposed to a lot of spam. Just on my government computer, I'm told that 98% or 99% of the e-mail we get is spam. The Government of Canada can afford pretty sophisticated spam filters, but it shows you the extent of the global problem. We're the only one of the G-8 countries that has no anti-spam legislation.
So I think Canadians are pretty realistic that they don't have all the privacy protection they need.