Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Going back to Commissioner Dufresne, I am concerned that there hasn't been complete transparency here, never mind concerns around the issue of privacy. When you look at the track record of this committee's work, we've started down the mobility data avenue, and the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Minister of Health never went directly to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner to get advice. There was some information sharing, but there was never an ask for input from the Privacy Commissioner's office.
When we studied facial recognition technology, it was after the fact that we learned about Clearview and how they're using artificial intelligence, and the shortfalls in monitoring, and it was only after it became public that police agencies in Canada decided to quit using FRT from Clearview, in particular, and now we are here talking about ODIT and software companies like NSO that has the Pegasus spyware. You have all of these, as they've been described: mercenary data companies that are out there selling this not just to police agencies but also to other governments with access worldwide.
Are you not concerned that, as the RCMP, CSIS and other government agencies are using this commercially available technology, it could fall into the wrong hands, never mind the privacy breaches that can occur with the use of that technology here in Canada?