Thank you.
And thank you, again, for being with us today.
With all due respect to my colleagues across the way, without wanting to get into a sermon, I wanted to quickly raise three points.
Despite having read the report...this report is simply not about sharing of information in general that may be government information; this is about sharing wrong information, misleading information, inaccurate information, and damaging information that has hurt people's lives. Recommendation after recommendation in Justice O'Connor's report is about people who are Canadians.
That falls into my second point, which is that not only are privacy and security not mutually exclusive, they're intimately bound together and cannot be released from each other. We are not safe if we do not have the ability to have our privacy protected. We have a false sense of security. It's not that they're possibly not mutually exclusive; they are absolutely entwined with each other or our Canadians are not safe.
That's the end of my sermon. Excuse me. Amen. I want to preach.
I'll get to my question. The bulk of this report is about privacy and information. The bulk of the recommendations have to do with information and inaccurate sharing of information. That puts us into the concept of labelling and what happens when people are labelled, which is bad enough, but when we share the labelling with either agencies within this country or, worse, outside this country with partners who are not dependable, we have a huge problem. And the report is very clear, in recommendation 5 I think it is, that the minister should be issuing ministerial directives to ensure that labelling does not take place by the RCMP or any of the other agencies that are involved in this.
Are you aware of any ministerial directives that have been released since 2006--we're now in 2009--since this report was issued?