Thank you.
This is on clause 10, and moving beyond the documents and into identity information and the interplay with PIPEDA. There's a Privacy Commissioner and there's the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. They have their own regime, I'll say. They deal with personal information, and I understand that we have defined identity information to be something less than personal information that relates to an identifiable individual.
I have two questions. Will there be an interplay between complaints to the commissioner or complaints based on the taking of personal information and what will be section 402.1 of the code?
Here's why I'm asking. People's information, I'll call it, is taken. If it's used for a fraudulent, deceitful, or false purpose, we understand what that means. That usually means some sort of economic gain. That's usually the way it is. But in the civil realm, most of the complaints at the PIPEDA level are based on invasions of privacy, which may have some sort of civil sanction. And we can get into issues about defamation, people using information for political purposes, even, and that's where I get to proposed section 402.2, where it says “falsehood”. We all know what fraud and deceit means, I think, but this is “falsehood”. Can someone take a name and date of birth, and come into it knowingly...? And that's all you have to do, you just have to know you have it. If you have an e-mail, you have somebody's date of birth and address, and you use it for some purpose, say you use it to show that Mr. LeBlanc doesn't live where he said he lived or someone says they had a title but they don't have a title, whatever, and it's really used for a civil purpose, is that a falsehood? Does that fall under the section?
I mean that in a more general sense. Don't be stuck with my particular example, because we really don't care where Mr. LeBlanc lives or what he does. But we do want to know where the cut is between the civil and the criminal and PIPEDA and sections 402, 403.