Yes, thank you for that.
What I was trying to say is that this commissioner needs to be independent of ISED and have more powers than the competition commissioner or the Privacy Commissioner, who have been asking for more power. They do not set the standard; they themselves want a higher standard. As I've also said, who came up with this idea of a tribunal? Who pulled that out, and what the heck is that for? It just weakens the courts and creates a middle process.
Also, I think it's worth having a discussion about whether AI should be integrated with the Privacy Commissioner. That question has never been asked. Data and AI hang out together. They're not separate. Privacy is always at play there, and we have an existing regulator who wants to have that authority and whom we have the ability to build with.
If I was designing this, I would start the consultation again on AIDA. I would not include the tribunal. I would ask if this commissioner should be within the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, with enhanced powers and resources. We already have a running system, and we just need to fix the text of Bill C-27, including the consultation with the first nations.
We have a winning path here that isn't expensive and delayed, yet it was all just thrown out there without really thinking.