Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to all the guests. A really important discussion is being had.
Dr. Scassa, I thought your intervention provided some very direct points, which will hopefully be picked up in our study as recommendations. I want the opportunity to expand on that.
One of the issues I've had is the one that you've raised, which is the relationship between public and private data collection. I suggested in a previous meeting that it might be the case that our government institutions are basically outsourcing privacy breaches. I want to start from that frame through you, Mr. Chair, to Dr. Scassa, who identified this relationship between public and private data, and suggested, perhaps, that too much emphasis was being put on the government's possession of it and not enough on the private collection of it.
Dr. Scassa, in your opinion, could this program have been guilty of potentially outsourcing a privacy breach, for lack of a better term?