My understanding is that there are fairly broad powers under the Privacy Act to run data lists against each other, as long as they meet the test of consistent use, which the Supreme Court has set out. I don't know the details--and we might have to get back to you on this--as to how the Canada Elections Act would fit under that scheme, because it's not subject to the Privacy Act. I must say, as Privacy Commissioner, I think this is an anomaly. I think this should be corrected. In fact, last week I tabled a report on the reform of the Privacy Act. In a modern country like Canada, minimally, all our legislation has to at least nominally be under the Privacy Act, and then we should have exemptions or modifications as necessary for that particular act.
So the Canada Elections Act is a slightly different piece of legislation, but the director general of elections can come to a written agreement with any one of the government departments that collects information, for that information-sharing for the purposes of his list.
Could I ask the assistant commissioner to respond?