Thank you very much.
Thank you, Ministers, for being here.
I want to pick up where Mr. Blaikie left off to some extent with respect to SCISA and bulk data collection and retention.
Why I mention SCISA in the context of the Privacy Act is that both in the context of SCISA and in the context of the Privacy Act we talk about standards of collection, retention, and disclosure, and specifically the necessity standard. We had the Privacy Commissioner before us, who said that the most important change you would make is a necessity standard for collection across all government departments.
I wonder, Ministers, if you could speak to the importance of that standard and whether we can see that standard becoming law within our mandate.