Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for your testimony.
I must say, before I ask my questions, that because PIPEDA was passed in 2006, the review was to have been completed by 2011. So while I hear my colleagues commenting that we can't improve this bill because we're running out of time, frankly it reminds me of one of my three sons saying, “I don't have time to clean my room right now or I'm going to be late for school” when he had all weekend to clean his room.
The government has had four years. This review should have been completed four years ago, and the fact we're getting these amendments now at the industry committee, after they have already gone through the Senate, is frankly a bit of brinksmanship. So I would encourage the witnesses to keep an open mind that while, of course, we want to modernize this law, and we want to address the concerns people have, we also want to have a good law, and we should take the opportunity to try to address the concerns that witnesses, yourselves and others, have brought to us.
One of the concerns that has been raised—I'd like to put this to all of the witnesses—was that this bill does not comply with the Supreme Court Spencer decision, and therefore we need to update our legislation, and other jurisdictions will need to address this as well. I'd like to get your thoughts on that. Do any of you have concerns that this doesn't adequately protect privacy in light of the Spencer decision, or is it something that you feel your legal counsel says is not going to impact your interpretation of how this law would be viewed?
Who would like to start? Mr. Bundus.