Thank you.
Now, your emphasized remarks again today calling for amendments to the Privacy Act to cover political parties' use of personal information carries significant new weight, given the information before us and the public regarding attempts, and perhaps some successes, to interfere with the democratic process in the recent U.S. election and in the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom. Certainly we have questions waiting for Mr. Wylie regarding his employment by the Liberal Party of Canada under two leaders between 2007 and 2009, his termination for what was described by one of the leaders as invasive elements of the work he was doing or was proposing be used, and then his re-employment by the Liberal research group after the 2015 election—in 2016—and payment of $100,000. Those are questions for another day.
But your request is that political parties be brought under legislation and regulated either under the Privacy Act or under the Elections Act of Canada. Which would you suggest would take priority?