Sure.
None of what I've said so far should be interpreted as me saying that I don't think we should be doing this. It's what tests we impose upon ourselves. I think that in Canada we have kind of proportionality thinking. Are we limiting people's freedoms too much? Are we showing that the limitation actually serves the end we're claiming it's serving? That's a good framework to do it in.
We also have agencies like the Privacy Commissioner that are tasked with doing that sort of thinking for us.
I think we might very well have ended up in a situation where he would have said that the use that's been made of this data is entirely proportionate to the very valid end that is being served. We just haven't had that demonstration from the kind of public body—