Thanks, Mr. Chair, and my thanks to everyone for your indulgence.
I appreciate the amendment coming forward, and it is a tough one. The reason I'll vote against the amendment is that, as we've heard from the department, there may be unintended consequences that we haven't been able to grapple with in the short time that we've been able to study this at the committee meeting here today.
Also, we've heard about the tight limitations that have been tried to ring-fence around the issues dealing with privacy. There may be issues in civil proceedings with different limitation periods in various provinces that would be far beyond the scope of any timeline for offences being resolved.
I would suggest that upon completion of the committee's work we send a letter to the Minister of Justice flagging this as an issue to consider in a future review of this bill. I know we'll be considering an amendment to the bill at a future review date. I think that would be the best way to handle it. By that time, we'll know whether any issues have arisen relating to the misuse of this information. I note that in my questioning there are no examples of this information being used for nefarious purposes. I think it would be a very limited problem. So let's write to the minister, flag this issue, and put it to future consideration.