Ideally, proposed paragraph 7(3)(c.1), which was at issue in Spencer, was one of the more controversial paragraphs that were dealt with in the consultation that led to this bill. Our position then, as it is now, is that it should be struck. We think that Spencer understates that.
Spencer closes the door to some sharing in specific contexts, but there are still ambiguities around what's going to happen in other contexts, and in the interim when that exception was introduced, literally millions of Canadians' private information was given to law enforcement under criteria we're not comfortable with. We would like to see it shut down, and have that provision repealed.
We'd also like to see the inclusion of an individual notice obligation whenever a private company voluntarily provides information to the state, unless it impacts on an investigation or something to that effect. We would like to see that.
Those are things we have, for a while, been calling for and that we would like to see in PIPEDA sooner rather than later.