Here's what the same Lawrie McFarlane had to say on the matter of compelling data: “I've heard it said that important interests are at stake here justifying gathering this data by compulsion.” He said, “I disagree.” I guess he would disagree with you. He said, “I worked in the health care field for some years. I was a deputy minister of health in British Columbia, and I set up the first regional health authority in Saskatchewan. We don't compel people to participate in clinical trials. We don't access or link their patient files without consent, and we certainly don't threaten them with jail time if they don't release their medical records.”
He seems to say that there is another way of doing that, and that is not through threatening them through fines or penalties.