Thank you very much, Mr. Petit.
Clearly it is a situation. There's a situation very similar to yours in my riding with a gentleman who 10 years later is still having trouble boarding Air Canada flights. When he and his wife board to go somewhere on a holiday, he still phones me and says he has a problem. It's a situation that needs to be resolved.
One of the things the third point of the bill was trying to address was the cross-border aspect of pretexting, of sharing this information, by holding the Canadian affiliates of foreign companies liable for invasions of privacy and identify theft committed against Canadians. The challenge here—and obviously this partly explains the amendments to the Competition Act—is that the Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, has no mandate to pursue investigations outside Canada. Perhaps, as Mr. Comartin mentioned, it might be better addressed by broadening her mandate, or broadening her powers in some way, through the PIPEDA review.
With the Internet and with wires going across borders and not respecting borders, we have to find a way to deal with exactly the kind of situation you describe--a company in Quebec that transfers information with the click of a finger down to a company in Texas, and 10 years later you're still dealing with this problem. That obviously has to be addressed. I think you mentioned it was 10 years ago; this is a problem that needs to be addressed now.