There was virtually no litigation activity 17 years ago in relation to privacy. In my practice, and I'm sure in that of the other witnesses who were around at that point, the focus was on compliance. You have a new statute coming in with a new set of rules. How do we write a privacy policy? How do we develop policies and procedures, consent documents, etc.? It was very compliance oriented.
There has been a tremendous evolution since that time in what I would call a mature and maturing privacy profession. There are organizations like the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Don't quote me on the number, but I think they have somewhere in the range of 20,000 members worldwide. A great deal of maturity has evolved over these years, so certainly the work and the issues have become more focused on specific types of projects and specific types of proposed activities, which are often emerging in a new technological or innovative context. We are trying to apply those facts to the law that we have.
The point I'm trying to emphasize is that I think PIPEDA has proven very adaptable to those evolving technological contexts to this point.