Thank you.
That's the area that I am most concerned about. Every time we pick up our BlackBerry or whatever gadgets we have, I agree that we don't read it. I would suggest that very few people read any of that. It's just an automatic check. It's a nuisance, and we just agree to it—until we find out that we have no protection, or very little protection. I think that's what we are trying to do here: to look at how to protect the consumer.
I attended a conference on cybersecurity yesterday. Certainly the issues that were raised there about security, whether you're talking about the Internet and so on, somehow make Bill S-4 look like it's still nowhere near what it should be, or the kind of legislation we need to be putting forward to better protect Canadians. I think it's unrealistic, frankly, to think that with this legislation companies are going to be reporting all of these breaches and so on. I think they'll ignore it. I think a $100,000 penalty is insufficient for a significant breach, based on the kinds of things we're learning through this process.
Certainly, Dr. Geist, your comments about transparency and disclosure would go toward improving it, as far as the real risk that consumers are facing is concerned, before they get into things like identity theft and violation of their basic rights. I don't want all my information shared with every Tom, Dick, and Harry who wants it. If we are going along with Bill S-4—and, from my party's perspective, I'm not sure that we are, but at least we're trying to make some improvements—what else would you suggest we need to put in here to make it stronger and more enforceable? I would ask that of all three, given my timelines here.