That's an excellent question. I do absolutely agree that to address the entire problem of identity theft, we need a much more comprehensive piece of legislation, or pieces of legislation, to deal with the issue. Frankly, I look forward to that. You mentioned the Justice Canada initiative in 2004, and they've continued their work on that. In fact, the department's been keeping me up to date on that, and I appreciate it. The last document was produced in June 2006.
My frustration, though, is that we need these laws in place now in Canada, because we have increasing and growing problems in this area, so anything I can do to move this issue along generally, anything I can do to address any part of the problem of identity theft, to me is a good thing.
I think you're correct in saying the bill addresses a narrow issue; it addresses a narrow issue by design. My focus obviously is to focus on a certain area and try to address the problem there as a way of dealing with part of the problem of identity theft. But while it's a narrow issue, it's an important one. I feel that if this bill were passed, it would obviously address part of the issue of identify theft, it would improve the laws of Canada in dealing with part of this problem, and I think, frankly, it would encourage the government to move to bring forward a more comprehensive package. If the government, in its wisdom at that time, felt that they could bring forward a comprehensive package and at that time all of my concerns were addressed in that package, obviously I would support it. If this bill does become law, and amends the law, I would certainly welcome that.
My concern is that if I were to withdraw the bill and back off, I'm not sure exactly when we would have the comprehensive pieces of legislation come forward to truly address the whole problem. I see this as a way to instigate it to address the entire problem.