When I first started with the ISE, I embedded some staff members from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner to help and guide us. From reading the proposed new security of Canada information sharing act, I know that it is implied that there will be strong oversight. It is specific in that it will be done by, I believe, independent, third-party, non-partisan experts much like SIRC, to make sure and to audit all the information that is being shared. The Officer of the Auditor General is also, under the act, going to be reviewing the files to ensure that there is compliance with our privacy concerns.
I think people may just have taken snippets of the bill and not have reviewed the entire bill.
I see it as a necessity. I don't know how many people have said to me in the past month or two: “Do you mean we don't share information with everyone? We don't do that? I don't understand.”