It's a good question. One of the major gaps in our privacy regime is that our federal commissioner does not have enforcement powers and cannot issue binding orders. One purpose of a moratorium would be to give the government a chance to rectify that gap, should it choose to do so.
There's always the question when you make a law of whether people will follow it. If you issue an order, will people comply? I think we're all very aware of the risks of that kind of equation after living through all these years of this pandemic. The fact that it may or may not be 100% effective in every regard doesn't mean that it's not necessary and it doesn't mean that we shouldn't try, because the stakes are so high. We are talking about the charter-protected rights of people across Canada who are at risk every day we allow these technologies to continue to be used without the legal safeguards in place to protect them.