Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would like to speak today simply in support of the amendment of my colleague Ms. Péclet. I think it is an extremely important amendment.
We asked a lot of question about this in the House. We need an oversight mechanism. There have never been so many requests to access personal information since the Conservatives have been in power. However, we have no oversight mechanism that we can use to report what goes on and see how our data are being used. That information is not being used solely in Canada. It is being shared with various police forces and international organizations. That is troubling from a privacy standpoint.
This is an excellent amendment. We need an oversight mechanism. The minister must provide parliamentarians with more information, even though he has a discretionary power. This is extremely important in view of the speed with which information circulates on the Internet and the ease with which it can be intercepted. We need to know where our personal information is being sent and with whom it is shared. Parliamentarians have a right of access to that information.