Yes, it was a joint meeting. In April we met with both Public Safety and Transport Canada officials together.
One of the issues that was discussed was whether legislation such as is now before this committee was necessary or whether there were other provisions in PIPEDA that would allow the disclosure. We recommended that for the sake of clarity it would be better to have legislation, as opposed to fitting it under some other exception.
We subsequently wrote the Department of Transport and the Department of Public Safety, in which we made four recommendations, and this was before Bill C-42 was introduced, one of which was to continue to press to limit collection, press to shorten retention periods, to negotiate more robust redress mechanisms, and finally, to limit the use and disclosure of personal information. So we had one meeting and we followed it up with a letter.