Canada's laws, for both the public and the private sectors, should recognize privacy as a fundamental human right. That's the starting point. We should ensure that the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, for both the public and the private sectors, has the authority to not just make recommendations, but make orders for the private sector and the public sector when it sees violations of the law. There should also be financial sanctions, certainly in the private sector, to ensure that these laws are respected.
I would say, because I think it's relevant to this particular study and it was referenced a minute ago regarding the use of these intrusive technologies in the private sector, that in 2022, information is shared between the private and public sectors extensively, and it is important that at the very least, public sector and private sector laws are compatible and interoperable. Ideally, they should be adopted in one statute, because data does not know frontiers between the public sector and the private sector. Again, at the very least, the rules should be similar and interoperable as between the public and private sectors.