We might not be able to force this on companies. This being said, this idea is in accordance with our desire to expand our activities. We give general advice and guidelines, but we would also like to be able to advise companies regarding specific activities.
We don’t want to become the legal services for all companies in Canada; that’s not what we want. However, if we could have more resources to provide advice to some companies that take actions likely to impact a large section of the population, that’s the type of work we would wish to do.
At the moment, we’re only able to do it once or twice a year. We’d like to be able to do it more often in order to prevent privacy issues instead of intervening only at the end, once rules have been violated. We’d prefer to intervene when programmes are being developed to ensure that these issues don’t occur.