What's interesting about it is that it provides that broader context.
One of the things that I found when PIPEDA was passed was that prior to PIPEDA, the federal government exercised a great deal of leadership and put a lot of money behind public access points for technology. It supported non-commercial spaces like SchoolNet, which was a phenomenal site, and it created places where people could communicate and participate in public discourse without this deal with the devil, as you said. Once PIPEDA was passed, within two years, all of that was gone.
The federal government kind of exited from that type of leadership. I think it would be an interesting moment to go back and say, “Wow, what we meant to do was to create one piece of the patchwork that would deal with data protection within this broader quilt that looked at privacy as a human right.”
The fact that we did not do it has actually put us behind the eight ball when it comes to a number of different issues, from national security to education. The stuff that's going on with educational software is terrifying.