I can start by saying it's always a challenge to keep pace with technology, and we all, I think, recognize that the legislative process moves at a different speed than technology does. That's, I think, a given. Filling in where technology has raced ahead and there is a need for an urgent response, I think, at times will make sense. But at the same time, I do think you have to get your foundational pieces of legislation right, and that means updating them on a pretty regular basis.
In fact, it was the Conservative government that on at least a couple of areas that are really my bread and butter in a sense—copyright and privacy—made a strong point of saying that they wanted to build in mandatory reviews to ensure that the legislation would stay up to date in a rapidly changing environment. A copyright review will take place next year. PIPEDA was one of the first to try to do the same thing by saying we'd have a mandatory review every five years. I don't think that's been well respected, quite frankly.
I think you have to get the foundation right. While there is a role for supplementing legislation where issues emerge, this legislation scarcely covers the VCR era. We're going back a long way if we're trying to think about the technology that was relevant at the time the legislation first came in versus the technology of the world we live in today. Notwithstanding some of the efforts to address some of those issues through directives and the like, what we fundamentally need is to re-establish what the baseline happens to be.