Thank you for the question.
There is a short list, and the easy answer is that sure, we can say to do this, this and this. The long answer is that when electricity was first put in, anything electric could be plugged in and there were many house fires. Then we developed grounding and all these things. Everybody's little things that come in from abroad must have CSA approval. I'm sure we've all seen that label. The Canadian Standards Association also does ISO standards and various standards on many things, including information and the standards we should be setting for information.
I think this is what it's going to take. If we truly have an interest in protecting our society, then we as people who are perhaps studying this in greater detail, as electricians studied electricity to protect people, are going to have to develop a risk assessment for things coming through our country and through our firewalls into our homes and bedrooms and wallets.
Privacy by design is something that I think all the privacy commissioners in Canada have looked at. Designing protections into what we allow our corporations to do is going to have to be part of what we as a society do. I know this is something banks and insurance companies and health companies and everybody looks at, but they say that this is going to cost them a lot of money; this is going to be this, that, and the other.
That is going to be a cost of our doing business in the 21st century. I think it's a worthwhile cost.