Yes, I know. I hate to put such a damper on your observations, but I think we have to put this into perspective.
As I said, the right to be forgotten does exist in Canadian law. The easiest parallel to it in law of common law origin is a pardon. A pardon, I think, still exists in Canadian criminal law whereby, if you haven't done anything wrong for...it used to be five years, you can apply to the Governor General for a pardon. That then shields you. It used to shield you from inquiries into your past, except for the police. I don't know now, with the evolution of security checks and so on, what it is, but we have had that principle in our law for a very long time.
The idea is redemption, rehabilitation. I think it's a valuable part of a society that values people, so I urge us to look at the right to be forgotten as it has evolved more recently in Europe—in a civil not a penal law context—in that perspective, given that we already have a right of correction that could be strengthened into a right of erasure.