Certainly. I take this information from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, which has done audits on FINTRAC and has been extremely concerned about the over-collection and then retention of irrelevant information that is nevertheless highly prejudicial. Keep in mind that these are individuals who have now been flagged as suspicious, as money launderers or terrorist financiers, who are now enshrined, if you will, in databases in FINTRAC that have been subject to increased data sharing.
How this impacts individuals is of course very hard to trace, because as soon as you have national security privilege, which you encounter when you are trying to trace where faulty information that is prejudicial to you goes, you encounter a series of black boxes.
So the point here is that we have to be scrupulous about how we screen and flag people as being at risk, and then we have to be scrupulous about who we share that information with, because of course the prejudiced individual has been highlighted in more commissions than I care to point to. We point to Arar saying that this needs to be overseen in the most rigorous fashion in order to ensure that Canadian safety is not imperilled.