Taking away our privacy rights doesn't cost them any money. Quite often when I look at rail regulation, it involves a lot of smoke and mirrors, a lot of stuff, but we don't really want to spend any money.
One of our concerns here that Mr. Hackl has laid out quite eloquently relates to all of the features already in place that could be used currently. When you are going to take away somebody's privacy right, the first question the courts will ask you is whether there is an alternative way that could be used that would achieve the same ends or better without taking away that privacy right. The answer is yes. It already exists.
The question I have for all of you MPs to think about is that slippery slope, the fact that I think the bureaucracy has been pushing their agenda for a long time on this. It's something that we have been fighting them about. They are not particularly friendly to us or to labour. The point simply put is that they want this policy because they want it to happen. There are other ways of doing it, but they're just going to exempt somebody from privacy. They think, let's just exempt somebody from the Constitution. Let's just exempt somebody's rights.
I think every parliamentarian should have their back up about this and should be thinking seriously. Especially for the Liberal Party, this is the foundation of most of these rights. Just because a bureaucrat or somebody walks in and says this is something they would like to do.... Mr. Hackl has laid out quite eloquently what else already exists, and that slippery slope is something we should try to avoid at all costs.