With due respect, I don't call that transparency. I know Commissioner Therrien very well. He did not say his office was consulted on this, not at all. Being informed of something is very different from being consulted on something. You go to people to consult them, because they have expertise in an area.
As he said, he would have looked under the hood. It's essential to examine how information is being de-identified, aggregated and used for a variety of different purposes. Things can go wrong in a million different places. He may have also said, “I think we need to notify the public. I wasn't aware of any of this, as a member of the public, until I read the stories about it that broke out, all relating to the complaints associated with this, and the fact that John Brassard and others were saying nobody knows anything about this. It hasn't gone to the ethics committee. It was, in my view, not transparent.”
If you know what website to go to, and look underneath, you can find something. That's not transparency. In my view, you have to push it out, tell people, and tell the public what you're doing with their information and their mobility data. I'm not going to suggest there was transparency here.