It's a bit of a challenge to define where the information should or shouldn't be, and who should or shouldn't be involved with sharing the information, particularly because, with the advance in big data, there is an enormous expansion in information that could potentially be relevant to security investigations. I suspect that would raise troubling questions for Canadians who think they're providing information to the government for a particular purpose and it ends up being processed in order to investigate crimes.
The things you mentioned in the discussion that just took place—the information entered into the MyDemocracy.ca website—is a good example of that. What if that fed into the RCMP, and people found some correlation between views on democracy and probability to commit a crime, and suddenly it was processed in that way? That's a strange example, but I think it's important to consider very carefully the relationship Canadians have with particular government agencies. If they're giving information that they feel is for a particular purpose, it might be troubling to them to know it's going to be used to investigate them or to process whether they're going to be suspected of any kind of wrongdoing.
Again, we're not necessarily hostile to sharing information, but I do think it's important to consider the relationship Canadians have with these government institutions and the way this principle that anything you say around anybody in government is potentially going to be used as part of an investigation against you will impact the relationship and the way Canadians interact with governments.