There are two main things. One is that the Canadian approach is of great appeal. The privacy world is divided into three groups: people who don't have privacy legislation, then there are people who take an approach like the European Union does, and then the approach of the United States, which doesn't have overall privacy legislation. The Canadian version of this blends in both the European and the American approaches. So it's of great interest and great appeal because it adapts itself to many situations and many cultures.
However, that's the good thing. The sometimes depressing thing is the rate to which Canada has fallen behind in its privacy protection and the extent to which we are challenged in enforcing some basic measures. One honourable member raised the question of security. We have no data breach notification legislation, unlike that in most states. We do not have a system that really deters to any extent a lot of misdoing. Within our own government we have a very opaque system of management of personal information that needs to be seriously looked at. The average Canadian has no recourse. If the federal government misuses his or her information, there really is no recourse. You just have a right to get access to your information, but if they've misused your information and made some egregious mistake that causes you harm, as is the case of Mr. Murdoch from Edmonton, you cannot go to the Federal Court or any other court to say I suffered damage to my reputation, my livelihood, and so on.
These are some of the areas in which on the overall approach we're good, and on the details we've fallen seriously behind.