All right. It's my understanding that the answer to that question is “no”--that we might get assurances, but the U.S. is not legally required to give the same provisions to Canadians as to Americans under their privacy act.
The minister talked about the time that would be required to implement a Canadian system, but that brings up another issue. The government has had a long time to act on this, you've known about this for a long time, and the bill itself is just one paragraph long, so why did you choose to wait until June 17--the last sitting day before the summer break--to introduce this legislation? Was it your goal to try to force the opposition into passing it without proper scrutiny?
If the deadline is the end of the year, you certainly haven't given us much time. I don't see why you couldn't have brought this bill forward many months earlier.