I want to be clear that they did go to great lengths to strongly de-identify the data and then use it in aggregate form. That does minimize the risk of reidentification. I don't want to suggest otherwise. I'm just saying that with mobility data—your cellphone, which lives with you and basically goes everywhere with you—there is such sensitivity associated with that and all the locations you go and who you may associate with, if the data were able to be reidentified and connections made on the part of the government, I think that would be extremely troubling.
So at the very least, the government should have provided notice to the public saying, “This is what we're doing. Here's why we're doing it. We want to track your movements in this COVID pandemic world.” Is that a sufficient reason? Would people have felt the return was sufficient? We have to have some debate about these issues. PHAC can't just decide to do that, as the MP said, without telling anybody. That's what I objected to the most—the total lack of transparency.