Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is to Mr. Edward Hasbrouck.
The American experience can indeed be helpful to us. You indicated in your opening remarks your fear that significant data information--everything from hotel reservations to the particulars therein--will be available and will be held as part of a profile.
Here is the question I have for you, sir. We're told that the default position, which we're led to understand is a solid one, is that information will be held for a length of time. There are three categories. In one it's assessed as “no threat determined”, and the information is immediately jettisoned; if there is some standard of threat, it is held for up to seven days; and if there's a defined threat, an actual terrorist identification, it's held for up to 99 years.
Are you suggesting to us, based on the American experience, that we should not have confidence in that default administrative protocol, a protocol not bound in legislation but in administrative practice? Is that what you're telling us?