Thank you.
I'm going to completely defer to Dr. Parsons in terms of the specific reforms that might be suggested to the Privacy Act. He has made a much greater and more comprehensive study of these things than me.
However, I'm going to borrow the old 1960s situationalist slogan, “Be realistic, demand the impossible.” The impossible I want to demand is in fact the complete abolition of the existing Privacy Act and PIPEDA. I want to see an entirely new architecture for information, data protection and privacy to be built in Canada at a federal level—and maybe at a provincial level too, because we have wildly incompatible provincial legislation situations at the moment, as you all know.
That's my recommendation. Every time these kinds of things happen, at the base of the problem is the fact that we have this archaic and out-of-date system for understanding how privacy relates to society—