Europe is catching up in many respects to things we've had as part of our privacy regime for a long time, such as the accountability principle. Breaches is an area that exists here that is newer in Europe. Privacy impact assessments and privacy by design, those are terms and practices that were coined here in Canada. They're actually playing catch-up and have tried to leapfrog in some respects.
The position the Canadian Bar Association is trying to present to committee members here is that we should not change our laws simply because the EU is doing so. Will it have an impact on us? Inevitably, I think it will. The fixation on adequacy, as I mentioned before, was wonderful, it was convenient, and it was very good for Canadian business, because it simplified the transfer of information. It's not the only way to do it. There are other mechanisms and the rest of the world is using those other mechanisms.
If we could get it easily, absolutely I think a lot of people would support doing so, but I don't think we want to do it at all costs. I think some of the things we're seeing in the GDPR may actually go too far.