Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The primary focus of Mr. Rajotte's bill was on what's called “pretexting”, a particular means of gathering identity information for the purposes of particular offences that were spelled out in the bill.
Bill C-27 goes well beyond that in terms of the means that might be used to gather the identity information. It's any means, as long as the purpose is to commit an offence involving fraud or some form of deception, so it's a broader range of offences that they might then put that information to.
It's also somewhat broader in terms of passing that information on. Mr. Rajotte's bill was limited to passing it on for money, essentially; this measure involves passing it on whether you're charging or not, or if you know or believe or are reckless as to whether the person you're passing it on to might then use it for an offence involving fraud or deception. It deals with all the major objectives of Mr. Rajotte's bill in a somewhat broader way.
I think, as the minister has said, when Mr. Rajotte's bill was being dealt with in committee, there was a recognition that the bill was fairly narrowly focused and that government legislation might come along, deal with it in a broader way, and subsume it.