It's important to just point out that the government has been very clear with us about the primordial importance of privacy in any of the work we're doing. What I would say is that not withstanding whether—and I'm speaking here hypothetically—information were to be collected for public purposes or by a non-profit, some of the things the hon. member was sort of conjecturing about—for example, whether there's any onward use of that information later, say, for commercial purposes—are all subject to PIPEDA and are also subject to provincial privacy legislation.
I can say pretty categorically at this point, when we look at the various proposals that have been brought forward, we would not be entertaining anything that would create privacy risks, and we would have significant frameworks and rules that would apply in the event there was concern about onward use of data. As well, anything that we did would certainly be with full transparency of the Privacy Commissioner and also in consultation with the Justice Department, so just to assure committee members, there's—