Mr. Speaker, here is the situation.
Private citizens grudgingly give personal information to government departments on the understanding that it will be kept confidential and never go beyond that particular department. Now we find out that this confidential information is freely traded between departments, collected on a master list and, according to the privacy commissioner, even traded with the private sector.
When did the government decide that its desire to do government research should trump one of the most basic rights of a free people, the right to privacy?