Thank you, honourable member.
I'm a bit amazed at that statement. It sounds like if we got more power, we would be slinging mud balls at each other. I don't know what hell would break loose if we had enforcement powers.
I had the honour to be the president of a tribunal, one of the ones I mentioned in my speech, that enforced privacy legislation in Quebec, both in the private sector and the public sector. I didn't notice that we had particularly acrimonious relationships with companies in the private sector. I don't notice that my colleagues in British Columbia and Alberta have particularly acrimonious relationships, because they also have an educative role. They also prefer to settle through negotiation, if possible. Nobody really wants to go to court if they can avoid it. They promote the voluntary adhesion to the law.
Therefore I don't see, in those places across Canada where there is some kind of enforcement power, that anybody said the relationships are difficult. If people don't agree and there's one case where you go to the tribunal, well, perhaps people agree to disagree, but I haven't noticed that's prevented my colleagues—or me, when I was in that position myself—from doing educational work, from working with chief privacy officers, from having collegial meetings with the private sector.
I'm a bit perplexed as to that statement.