I have a couple of comments. First, I'm not particularly supportive of the right to be forgotten. I have seen it come up in a context. Actually, I sit on the board of CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute, which makes Canada's laws and decisions available online. Those have been available online for a long time. We don't index through Google, although we've had a number of instances where people have captured many of those decisions. They've been made available through Google, and people have found out that a decision from many years earlier is in fact available online.
I must admit I've never been particular sympathetic about the need to remove that information. The need is to address it up front, let's say in the court context, by redacting, say, sensitive family information from court decisions. Once it's published, open-court principles apply. I think the same is largely true in this context.
The one place that I would differ slightly from what David was talking about is over the issue of jurisdiction over search engines, whether we could compel them to do something. In fact that exact issue—not in the exact same context—is before the Supreme Court of Canada in a decision that will be heard in early December, Equustek v. Google, in which the B.C. courts have ordered Google to remove from their search results certain content that a B.C. party alleges violates their intellectual property rights. The B.C. courts have ordered Google to do so, not just for the search results that are made available to Canadians through Google.ca, but rather for the entire world.