We had one witness, Jim Balsillie from the Centre for Digital Rights, talk about it from a business perspective. He talked about the other layer. He said what's going to happen is that if you're a corporation trying to negotiate with the commissioner, you'll just shrug your shoulders and say, “Well, I'll see you at the tribunal, which is quasi-judicial.”
We've seen some of this with the Competition Bureau. With the Rogers-Shaw case, it was so bad that when the tribunal made a ruling opposed by the competition commissioner, the company itself was able to then sue the commissioner. It created another layer. It created a precedent that we don't want to see happen with our privacy laws.
I'd like to go to this other question as well. There's no other privacy law regime in the world that has this tribunal. We're looking at progressive regimes in the EU, as well as regimes in California, Utah, Colorado, Virginia and Connecticut and the proposed American data privacy and protection act, and no one has proposed or established a tribunal like the tribunal being proposed, so why is Canada trying to be an outlier? What would be the benefit?