Good morning, Mr. Therrien, Mr. Morgan, and Ms. Kosseim.
It's always a pleasure to see you, Mr. Therrien and Ms. Kosseim.
Welcome, Mr. Morgan.
I want to ask you questions, because you've written about this before, and I've done my own readings. I want to talk to you about the information-sharing agreements, and specifically about something called “originator control”, which I'm sure you're familiar with.
Let's look at the 17 departments that are involved in information sharing. One of them is the Department of Health. By profession, I'm a pharmacist, so I want to stick specifically to this point. You have someone who collects information, whether they're medically capable or not—that's one issue—but in medicine, we do not use a necessity test. We use a relevance test, because we don't put that burden on the patient to have to tell us what they think is necessary. We take all the information.
If all the information comes to someone in that department and they are responsible for the subsequent use of that information, and it goes down to different departments, how do they know, further down, that the information they're divulging to other departments is relevant, necessary, or proportional?