To my point, if the Privacy Commissioner is stating at the onset here that this provides no guidance, that it's going to be ambiguous, I'm wondering where it's supposed to live?
Our fail-safe is to go to the Privacy Commissioner, because first and foremost the whole premise of this act—where we're coming from on this side—is that privacy needs to be a fundamental right and there should be no ambiguity. If some organizations want this wording in to provide more elbow room, that's not really what we're here for. We're here to protect Canadians' fundamental private rights.
When we look at this bill I can't see any reason why so far—except for it being in Quebec's legislation—we're seeing it as a best practice anywhere else to include this language, except for the fact that some of these organizations like the Canadian Marketing Association are saying that it's not going to allow them to collect and be free with Canadians' private information.
Mr. Chair, I will leave this here just so the rest of the committee can come in, but on our side we can't see why this amendment would be here.
Thank you.