Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
We're staying in the same area of discussion about information sharing and, again, I'm working from the letter from the Privacy Commissioner. What this does is add a section that is in a sense a greater certainty section. What it calls for is that the government institutions that are sharing information have a procedure that ensures the relevance, reliability, and sufficiency of information. In other words, this is information about to be shared. Has it been checked to make sure it's true? Has it been checked to make sure that it's relevant? Has it been checked to make sure it's complete?
The cautionary tale we have here is the story of Maher Arar, whose information was not checked for relevance, reliability, and sufficiency, and which ended up in the torture of a Canadian in another country. So, again, it's like a for greater certainty clause. What it would do is enshrine in legislation the best practice, as the Privacy Commissioner recommends, to make sure that once your information is gathered and then is about to be shared, that it's only done so when it's relevant, reliable, and complete.