Maybe I can give you a very simple example regarding cookies. We've all heard about cookies on websites, and 10 years ago cookies were very new, something that people didn't understand. Now, 10 years later—or more like 15 to 20 years later, actually—I think this is something that is well known by reasonable persons. Just to be clear, the fact that it's evolving is not bad. I think our laws are built on a notion like this, that essentially we are making things evolve.
What I see in proposed section 18, to be frank, is the assessment. The assessment makes me feel more comfortable in being able to say that this is rational and it's been explained. It's been detailed, and it's not just somebody saying, “You know what? I think I have a legitimate interest.”
Again, I understand that those are valid concerns. I hear you, but at the same time the world is changing fast. I think we can do tremendous work, and I think Bill C-27 is full of potential, but we need to accept as well that technology is going so fast that those kinds of concepts need to be embedded in the law.
That's my position.