That's interesting. I can see where the information could be useful to a law enforcement agency, for example, if it is keeping surveillance on a person who has large sums of cash. Who is to say that the individual may have just sold a property or some large-value asset and is just taking the cash? There can be legitimate and illegitimate reasons for carrying large sums of cash. If the question is never asked, how would they even know, other than going through...? It just seems to me to be quite....
I thank you for bringing that up. I will be sure not to have more than a twenty on me when I go through security.
I'm going to refer to my personal life before I was a member of Parliament. You talked about the educational component of making people aware. I taught computer systems technology at Red Deer College. I am a graduate of computer systems technology. I am a little bit dated now because I have been here for a number of years and technology is advancing at a rapid pace. I'm just wondering, when we went through the accreditation process of having our diploma, we went through ASET, the Association of Science and Engineering Technology Professionals of Alberta. They would give us accreditation for our diploma so that graduates leaving that college would be recognized. It was a recognizable accreditation process.
Does your office ever get involved in making sure that anybody who has these accreditations actually has the wherewithal and knowledge they need? Do you make sure that somebody who graduates with a piece of paper has the knowledge? There is no official society out there for computer professionals. It's all voluntary. Is there anything that your office is doing to make sure those folks who are graduating, supposedly with the knowledge to maintain information systems and databases that would have all of this information, are actually trained to the level or standard that would satisfy most Canadians enough to know that whether they work in the public service or private sector, they are fully functional in the legislative requirements for the duties they would be doing? It seems to me that would be a logical place for an intervention.