Thank you for that question, because it's important to situate what happened in the context.
There's an international privacy commissioners' conference. That has existed for about 25 years now. Increasingly within that conference we're coming to the realization that the issue is common action, common standards, and common enforcement goals, particularly when faced with the rise of global business, which has been dramatic in the last 10 years, and then the rise of the new social online media, which have been around for only two or three years.
We've done quite a few things over the years with this group. Last year, we were working on global standards to try to bring standards across different countries closer together, because global business says that it doesn't know what the standard is: that it's this in one country, while the procedures are that in another country. So we're trying to facilitate the understanding of privacy.
It's within that context, and more particularly within the context of the work at the OECD, where Canada, through the presence of the delegation led by Industry Canada, plays a significant role in OECD privacy and security workshops. Some of us were there in Paris on that occasion, and that's when the idea of a common position on this particular issue arose.