Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Balsillie, I have a question for you about the privacy tribunal—similar to the Competition Tribunal that exists—where decisions, rulings or potential orders of the Privacy Commissioner would be challenged by organizations or businesses. This has been demonstrated by the Competition Bureau's rejecting and reversing decisions of the competition commissioner in the case of Rogers' takeover of Shaw, for example.
Other countries do not have this additional quasi-judicial body that seems to obstruct what independent agencies have decided. Parties to these decisions of the Privacy Commissioner can always go to the Federal Court, as in other countries, if they disagree with the decision. In fact, they can go to the Federal Court even to appeal the decisions of the privacy tribunal.
What is your opinion of the privacy tribunal? Is this an extra layer that just delays function and will hinder the Privacy Commissioner's office from carrying out its necessary functions and enforcing its decisions?