I just want to specify that this is a corresponding amendment to a future amendment. It's a little bit tricky because we haven't voted on the other amendment yet. The overall intent here is to give the Privacy Commissioner more powers, specifically order-making power, so that we can force organizations that aren't complying with PIPEDA to have an incentive to comply by the commissioner's investigation resulting in something more than a simple recommendation—an order that would be respected.
Now, I understand there are some good actors and we definitely want to encourage organizations to not have to get to the point where there's an order that's made or that there is some good will. There's a lot of good will out there. I think the series of amendments I want to put in place allow organizations, following the commissioner's order, to have a certain delay to be able to comply with that order without there being any repercussions. After that, obviously there is some wiggle room for some exceptions and some time extensions to be applied, but if the organization has not complied with that order within a certain amount of time, the commissioner would have the ability to bring that matter to court, which could then impose fines. We've heard this from multiple privacy advocates. This is very important because what we're seeing right now, especially in this age of big data where we have international organizations coming into Canada, is Canadians using these services but then completely disregarding any recommendations coming from the Privacy Commissioner's office. It's extremely problematic.
I see I'm supposed to speak to this amendment, but I guess I'll just speak to NDP-14 too because they are related. I think we need more than just compliance agreements. I think compliance agreements are a good start, but they don't go far enough. They don't go far enough to ensure that the Privacy Commissioner has the powers that he needs to be able to make sure that PIPEDA is being enforced and for organizations to have real incentives to respect the privacy of Canadians, which unfortunately is not happening right now. We've heard witnesses say the compliance agreement is a good start. I think everyone will say that, but we need to go further to ensure in this age of big data that privacy is protected.
I'm just going to perhaps specify that I'll speak to NDP-14, and I guess NDP-15 at the same time, then. I'm speaking to NDP-13, NDP-14, and NDP-15 altogether since they're very much related.
Thank you.