Thank you, Chair.
I appreciate the points that have been made, but I would disagree that LIB-30 is the one that best encapsulates this for the simple reason that LIB-30 makes it very specific by saying, “or involve the acquisition by the Establishment of information from or through the global information infrastructure that interferes with the reasonable expectation of privacy”. On the other hand, my amendment and the Green Party amendment from Ms. May both say, “the acquisition of information in respect of which there is a reasonable expectation of privacy”.
The wording is not exactly identical, but suffice it to say that they do not limit it to information acquired from the global information infrastructure. I don't know why we would want to limit the types of information that are covered by this protection. As far as I'm concerned, a Canadian's information, where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, should be all that information and not just information acquired in that way.
Moreover, given that we've heard numerous times both from the experts who are here and from members across the way that more specificity is not always good because it's the spirit and all these types of things, I don't know why we would suddenly be engaging in specificity if not to create loopholes that can be problematic for Canadians' rights and privacy.