If there were an express statutory authorization that could deal with the Privacy Act issue.... As the minister stated in his remarks when he appeared, it's more a concern about the distribution and the principles of privacy protection generally, and Canadians may be fairly sensitive about this information. If there is no significant policy objective behind it--and it's not clear that there is--in the same way as putting it on the revised list and the official list used at the polls would be, then there are privacy concerns as well.
On December 12th, 2006. See this statement in context.