There are. It's not so much a working group as it's an issue that I've done a lot of writing on. I appeared before the committee on international trade and was one of the panellists at one of the town halls that the government held on the TPP.
There are some privacy provisions. The TPP has an e-commerce chapter, which is really a first in many ways for a trade agreement of this kind, certainly for Canada. It includes some privacy provisions. In my view, it establishes an incredibly low threshold. It does so largely for the private sector. It calls on TPP countries to establish privacy rules, but in a footnote notes that if companies simply put out privacy policies and then there is an enforcement arm to ensure that those privacy policies are abided by, that is sufficient. That's a nod to the United States, which doesn't have overarching privacy rules.
I suppose the position I've taken on the privacy provisions in the TPP, like many of the digital provisions, is that I thought Canada has a good story to tell and has policies, whether it's on privacy or in a number of other areas, that I think reflect considered long-standing discussions and debate about striking appropriate balances, because there's always a balance to be struck on a lot of these issues. Unlike the United States on a lot of these digital issues, which looks to these trade agreements to try to proactively take their policies and see them reflected in trade agreements so that they'll be reflected in other countries, which has the effect of seeing better laws all around the world but also of ensuring that their companies and others know that if they're compliant locally they can look to the same kinds of regimes elsewhere, I thought the Canadian negotiators were really disappointing in that regard and simply didn't prioritize those kinds of issues. Canadian businesses that seek to comply with Canadian rules under our Canadian system won't see those same kinds of rules reflected elsewhere due to the TPP, which I think is a missed opportunity at a minimum.