Thank you.
For me, the role of Privacy Commissioner is a combination, in a way, of my experience as a human rights lawyer for the commission and as a counsellor for the House. I think there is an important role in understanding parliamentarians and understanding legislators and understanding laws. There's also the ability to work with multiple parties, with members from all parties with different interests, and to balance that and understand that.
In terms of proactivity, I think as Privacy Commissioner I would be more proactive in terms of expressing views on what legislation should be. As law clerk, I would not typically do that. I would be focusing more in terms of the rights and privileges of parliamentarians. As commissioner, I would view the role, absolutely, as being proactive in terms of promoting, protecting and expressing views, and in terms of the complaints process, ensuring that it is used as effectively as possible—talking about strategic use, focusing on big cases, ensuring that the resources are used as well as they can be, and then ensuring that there is that discretion for the commissioner to have that greatest impact.
That's not to say that individual cases are not important. They are. You have to focus on them, but there's a way of doing both.