Our views on the new personal information and data protection tribunal are mixed. On the one hand, it may be interesting to have a specialized tribunal with expertise in this area to make privacy decisions. On the other hand, we have reservations about the fact that this tribunal will have a lot of powers to review or overturn the office of the commissioner's decisions. Since the office of the commissioner is a body that can be trusted, in our opinion, the overturning of its findings should perhaps be avoided.
The fact remains that, for us, the basic problem is not so much the existence of this tribunal as the fact that the office of the commissioner can only recommend administrative monetary penalties. We believe that the office of the commissioner should have the power to impose them directly.