Colleagues, with your indulgence, I'd like to ask a few questions. Is that all right?
Mr. Geist and Mr. Fraser, I'd like to follow up on something that Mr. Erskine-Smith was addressing. This is with regard to secondary or tertiary uses of information. Let's say legislation is put before the House and is passed for the capture of information for a specific purpose. It's used, for example, for somebody exiting the country. It's used to determine whether or not somebody qualifies for health care benefits, because we do have rules and laws pertaining to that. However, now all of a sudden it becomes much easier for, say, Stats Canada to capture how many people are leaving the country and the travel locations of certain Canadians, or it becomes something that maybe CSIS or other organizations might want to have access to.
What things should we as a committee be recommending to the government insofar as primary purposes for capturing information? How well should that be laid out? What kind of detail and legislative rigour need to be put around making sure that people's privacy is protected and that information is only used for what it was initially intended?