I think there are a number of ways to proceed with legal reform across a range of different laws that would provide an improved baseline of accountability and transparency.
Previous witnesses yesterday talked about making privacy impact assessments mandatory, and I do support that recommendation as a baseline requirement. Also mentioned was the idea, which I support, of including the existence of privacy as a fundamental human right in both our public and private sector privacy laws. That changes the nature of the balancing act that's necessary when we're deciding whether businesses or governments are allowed to engage in invasive privacy practices. It puts the right at the centre, in a place where it should be in those balancing equations.
It's also worth looking at part VI of the Criminal Code, which, to the best of my knowledge, had its last very significant amendments slightly more than 20 years ago. It could be that experienced defence counsel in particular would be of great use to this committee in recommending alterations to that, based on their experience with these kinds of contemporary technologies as their use emerges in criminal cases.
Finally, as one more concrete thing, the United States has created an entity list of banned spyware vendors. Canada should absolutely consider doing the same thing, which would provide some public assurance that our tax dollars are not going to support these dangerous and mercenary companies.