I will use the word “proactivity”, which I have used in this committee previously with respect to Privacy Act reform.
We have approached current officials to ask them to give advice as departments develop their individual strategies. I think that's part of it. If laws are amended, we should be consulted in the development of laws. Once laws are adopted, we should have the stronger powers that we have sought to ensure that legal privacy principles are actually being implemented. It's going to be a long journey.
My answer is that with our limited resources we're willing and able to play as proactive a role as possible. We will not define the objectives. Government will define the objectives, but we are able within our means to give advice as early as possible, and once systems are adopted, to play an oversight role with legal powers to play that role.