I might be able to reassure my colleague.
My specialty is public security and justice. This is the first time I am involved in that type of thing, but I can still describe the issue for consumers.
For Mr. Mulcair's problem, I believe that once we have in the Criminal Code an offence of information theft, we will at the same time have a penalty that would be a deterrent in such a case. Like the nurse who steals medication such as morphine, this would be a criminal offence. What he describes is clearly a theft of information.
At any rate, I remain intrigued by this. We still hear complaints from the general public about the rates charged by credit card companies, which I find usurious. Is there anything in this bill that tries to solve that problem?