Yes, Jennifer Stoddart is a personal hero of mine. I worked closely with her in Ottawa as her assistant commissioner.
One of the benefits of Canada is that Canada has been a hard-working member of the OECD, so Jennifer Stoddart was the chair of the privacy and security committee of the OECD for many years. I think she was very influential in that role in bringing together various members of the OECD and others around the world.
As a Canadian working in the U.K., I was able to chair the Global Privacy Assembly, which is the group that brings together 135 privacy authorities from around the world. Again, that was an influential post because it took me to G7 meetings and meeting with the ministers of industry, technology and trade. The privacy commissioners can fulfill a really important diplomatic and bridge-building role around the world.
We have a great example in our current privacy commissioner. He's very well regarded already in international circles, but I think the investment has to go to influence other places and countries around the world. Given the fact that data knows no borders and we're all dealing with the same big companies, there needs to be some collaboration and co-operation.
I can see that Canada can continue to play that role but not when our laws are so 20th century. The update of the laws is so important because, with the Privacy Commissioner in Canada, it's not sustainable to have ombudsman and recommendation-only powers when data is the greatest asset of the 21st century.