Thank you.
I definitely appreciate the idea of.... Going back to the forest, I would agree that this set of circumstances has opened us up for a much broader conversation.
My questions will be directed to Dr. Geist and are about some of the comments he made about the Privacy Act being outdated, being inadequate, and the need for the highest standards. I've been calling it the gold standard. In fact, the focus of my questioning has been along these lines for the entirety of the study, because I am looking to get out of this study recommendations that could strengthen our legislation so that we're not continuing to chase the ambulance, for lack of a better term, on individual instances of privacy breach but are creating a standard that meets or I would even suggest surpasses the GDPR. I say that because of the way in which information is being used politically—disinformation and all these other types of things—so it really does come down to being able to profile the end consumer of it.
So my question, through the chair, to Mr. Geist is this. Taking your time to walk through your top priorities to tweak the rules for Canada in a new and improved, modernized Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act reform, what would that look like for you and how would that be the highest standard that Canada could put forward in this moment?