Thank you, Madam Chair.
Again, thank you to you and the committee for the motion passed earlier to help Canadians fight fraud. It's much appreciated.
I will start with this question. In 1983, when the Privacy Act was passed and we created our current regime, we had floppy disks. We had mostly paper files, all those things. There hasn't been a major modification to the act. There were two attempts, I think, in 2010 or 2011, in which there was tabled legislation that Parliament never passed, so we're dealing with a very antiquated process to protect the public.
I believe the work the Office of the Privacy Commissioner has done since I've been a member of Parliament has been terrific. It's been important for citizen rights and also important for the economy. I would argue that it's actually strengthened investment in newer technologies in some sectors.
First of all, should this contact tracing be rolled out, would there be a way to differentiate where the exact strengths and weaknesses of an application could be within your powers? Second, would you be in support of a process whereby Parliament could reconvene quickly to pass legislation to give specific empowerment to protect people for data contact tracing? Would that be something that you would consider, as opposed to living with the weaknesses of the current legislation?