The privacy aspect relates to the collection of personal information, the data mining, whereby information is taken from various sources, some of which may be publicly available and some of which individuals or perhaps all Canadians are required to provide to government. Generally, it's provided for a purpose. We provide our income and things to ensure compliance with the tax regime or for other reasons. We provide our information to government, and this is where the requirement for a necessity test comes in.
This is probably also where the commissioner's recommendation about information sharing agreements comes in, because there would have to be some of this if information is being drawn from across government in order to determine eligibility for programs, and it would be important for us to know where this is coming from. We don't have a consent element, really, in the public sector, because there's only one provider and we're normally providing information under compulsion. That's required.