We learned very quickly that the lack of information sharing provides fundamental insecurity. We're not talking about gathering new information. As my colleague mentioned, it's information already resident, collected legally by different parts of the Canadian government. The inability to share that information is crazy.
Everybody always says, “Big data, my God, it's Big Brother coming in 1984.” You know, I'm sorry; big data is here. It operates on everything we do and it gives you an advantage.
Should there be oversight? Do you need to watch this stuff? Yes. But to try to say that we're not going to do it, and let's just put it aside, is a fool's errand. That information needs to be shared. We have the capability to share it accurately, to go through the multiple haystacks and find the needle, if we have the right amount of hay there. If you don't have all the hay in the stack, you're going to miss the needle. You do need to do that.
I agree; you have to do the information sharing. It's absolutely essential. You do need to make sure that the wrong information doesn't get in the wrong hands. But I think, reading this bill, it's people who own it legally, and they share it with people who have the authority to act on it for these specific issues, not helter-skelter for anything they want to.