Thank you.
Once again, I want to thank the committee for inviting me to testify.
I would urge you, Mr. Chair, simply to consider in any new policy or new information sharing agreement to not discount the very real privacy concerns, and in fact, simply to weigh them in the balance. I think travellers to the U.S. and travellers to Canada undoubtedly value their privacy. There's no doubt about that. I don't wish to undercount the importance of the trade and the travel between the two countries, and the necessity of making their profits easier for all, which I think is a benefit, but I do think it is important for the committee to simply consider the steps or the changes that can be made that would ensure that the privacy interests are adequately balanced. I think that people increasingly are aware of the existence of massive quantities of data on them that are held not only by governments but by private parties. We've seen a rise in people taking steps to protect their privacy, to minimize the data that they put out into the world. I don't think this is any less true of travellers between both countries, and I think that people are increasingly concerned about such things as hacking of information and hacking of databases, of which even governments are vulnerable. I would conclude simply with that: the privacy considerations should be weighed.