It is important to have both. Government needs to be more nimble. There's a lot of importance to that. Canadians expect that, but we have to make sure we're doing it with the appropriate safeguards.
If data is going to be shared.... Perhaps there's not enough ability to share data now. If there is too much ability to share it, without enough safeguards, then there is a risk. For example, if I give my information to one department, say, for a health reason, then there wouldn't necessarily be a need for this to be used in a completely unrelated department without my knowledge or awareness.
Those guardrails are important. That's going to generate trust. Canadians are going to be happy that they don't have to send nine or 10 different forms to different places. They also don't want situations where there's a privacy breach or where public servants—many people in other departments that have nothing to do with their files—now have access to their information. It needs to be very well built and have those other measures to protect privacy. The order-making power and strengthening the privacy regime are opportunities to show that they go hand in hand. That's how you generate trust.
In the government's pillars for AI, the first pillar, “Protecting Canadians and Safeguarding our Democracy”, talks about trust. That's how you're going to encourage AI. In order to do that, you need modernized laws.