I can only go by what the committee has been told by Telus and responses from the minister. Based on what I've seen put forward, the indications are that that's the case.
I think it would have been better to have the Privacy Commissioner there operating as an independent agent to provide the kind of insight and review that may not have occurred in this case, and that's one of the shortcomings that we've seen.
It's easy to say that it's legal, but part of the problem is that it's legal. Part of the problem is that if we don't have strong enough consent measures and if we don't have a framework that imbues the kind of trust that we've been talking about, then you can both conclude that it's legal and still leave people uncomfortable with what's taking place.