Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
It wouldn't be an understatement to say that Canadians are worried about their private information and that the possibility for breaches of their private information have increased since the advent of various social media. The legislation we have in place is definitely not robust enough or even modernized enough to ensure the protection of Canadians and their private information. I think the apparatus of government is suffering a little bit from that as well.
I have a more specific question for you. In the privacy commissioner's report tabled recently, we can find the following paragraph on page 21:
Notwithstanding the above, we would like to highlight that there may have been more personal information compromised as a result of the loss of the hard drive than was reported by ESDC to affected individuals.
Would you care to elaborate on why compromised personal information was not disclosed to individuals specifically? Why didn't the ministry choose to report this?