One of the real challenges with this bill is that it's not just specific, targeted amendments to the law that we had in place before, but it's a complete rewriting and reworking. Many of these provisions have come over verbatim from PIPEDA, but related concepts have been changed or redefined. In some cases, there have been new provisions added and new language used. As a result, there's a lot going on and there are substantive concerns, and then there are the concerns about how the provisions interact with each other. There are concerns about whether there are legacy problems created because things have been carried over but not adapted to other concepts that have been introduced in the bill.
I think all of us who have been studying and looking at this bill, when we were asked to name the top three things, came up with lists of 15 or 20 or 25 things and thought of those as short lists, because there's a lot that you could comment on and address. I think we've been trying to move up to the top things.
I'm very concerned that if this bill is passed, over the course of the next few years we're going to be finding problems and issues in the bill relating to some of these other changes and language adjustments that we didn't address or didn't anticipate. I think this is a concern, particularly in light of Professor Geist's comments that it takes an awfully long time before there's room on the legislative agenda for further amendments.
I think this is one of the fundamental challenges of this bill. I am sorry that this committee cannot fully devote its time to this and has to split the time between this and the AI and data act, which is very seriously problematic as well.