Statistics Canada is a good example leading to my answer to Ms. Saks, namely that the principal amendment to make to the public sector law is to have a standard of necessity and proportionality limiting the collection of information by government institutions.
Statistics Canada had laudable objectives of better understanding certain problems of the poor's access to programs, so it went about getting extremely detailed—actually line-by-line—financial reports of banks and financial institutions to better understand citizens in order to give them access to better services. In our view, this very pervasive look at financial records was not proportional and necessary. We did not say that the objective was not laudable and legitimate, but there was just too much information obtained by this government institution. We have since worked with Statistics Canada and are still working with them to improve their systems, but I think the main lesson is that it is crucial that the standard of necessary proportionality be incorporated in a future public sector law.