Mr. Chair, I would just point out the difference between these amendments and the NDP's amendments. The NDP amendments propose to change the threshold. These types of disclosures would still be permissible in certain circumstances, but it changes the threshold for when the disclosures would be permitted. This amendment would remove the exception entirely, so it would eliminate any exception to consent for either fraud prevention, detection, or suppression activities, or private investigations.
It's worth pointing out that the amendment in Bill S-4 that provides these exceptions.... They are not new exceptions. They change the way that these disclosures happen. Currently there are provisions in PIPEDA that allow for private investigations. We refer to it as the “investigative bodies framework”. Bill S-4 repeals the investigative bodies framework and replaces it with these exceptions. This amendment takes out the exceptions from Bill S-4, but it doesn't return back to the status quo.