Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank the witnesses for their thoughtful presentations.
The committee is deliberating on two very important issues. One is the essence of preserving privacy while at the same time ensuring commerce, the well-being of the economy, and the ability of citizens to make informed consent. I'd like the witnesses to comment on this, Mr. Chair, if they could.
We're competing with an idea here. Citizens are aware that certain aspects of their personal information will indeed be conveyed to a foreign jurisdiction, yet they willingly choose to take that flight, knowing that it is a matter of law and a matter of a requirement by a foreign state exercising its rightful sovereignty. We've heard as a committee that it is indeed the sovereign right of the U.S. to require this information before allowing access to their airspace. In the interests of the Canadian citizens who would be involved, if they knowingly make this decision to board an aircraft knowing that this information will be conveyed, doesn't that imply informed consent? How does that meet with the tests or standards you described?
Ms. Vonn, could you begin?