Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In response to the honourable member's question, I'm going to comment on the Auditor General's report. We too audit, but we audit for the protection of personal information. We think it's a very useful way to encourage compliance.
Last month, I tabled my reports on plans and priorities for the coming exercise before this House. In that you will find that we plan to audit electronic health information in its relation to personal information management, both in Infoway Canada and in Health Canada. But to do that we are going to wait until the fiscal exercise in 2009-10, after the Auditor General's report and then the follow-up has been tabled, from not only the reports that she just talked about, but her coming Infoway report, so we don't duplicate anything her office has done.
Mr. Chair, may I ask our general counsel to talk about the challenges of coordinating privacy among 14 jurisdictions?