Thank you. This has been a fascinating discussion.
One thing I've learned in my many years in Parliament is that I've become very mistrustful of government saying they're going to come up with a great new app that's going to make everything easy and cheap, because whenever it comes to the issue of privacy, it doesn't seem to be within the operating culture.
For example, this past week I learned that the government had 250,000 breaches of private information of citizens, including their tax records, health records—all manner of other records. That was down from 2013, when there were a million breaches of personal information, which included 583,000 records of financial information on student loans.
Through each of these cases, year in and year out, the reporting rate of government officials to the Privacy Commissioner.... In Canada, if there's a major breach of privacy, you're to report it to the Privacy Commissioner, who then investigates to determine if there's been a threat to personal data. The government rate of reporting is 4% in these breaches. That suggests that when it comes to deciding the priority, it's always to protect the rear end of the minister and try to keep it out of the public eye, rather than the primacy of privacy.
From your experience with the U.K., how do we ensure that we have a government that puts privacy above sometimes protecting departments and protecting mistakes? These breaches happen year in and year out, and they're very serious.