The second question I have is based on national security.
As you know, Canada has many alliances around the world, whether it be the Five Eyes or intelligence sharing with our European partners. I'm wondering if you could give me an idea, because I'm not sure if I understand how it works.
From a foreign government you may have two types of requests. You may have an immediate request when there's an ongoing situation in a foreign country and they need some information on a Canadian, or you may have a long-term request for information on a particular Canadian who is not involved in anything immediately, but could be down the road. How do you analyze that request? More importantly, how do you safeguard the information? Once it crosses a border, that information now is being held in a foreign government's file.
We have the Privacy Act and we have certain safeguards here. How do we ensure that those same safeguards will be maintained in a foreign country, or that the information will not be shared within the departments of that country or sent off to a third country?