Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate my young and brilliant colleague from Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier.
I would like to come back to the end of the letter written by the privacy commissioner, Mr. Radwanski, where he says:
I regret that I have not, to date, been successful in obtaining—
He was talking about ministers and top government officials.
—an appropriate response from them, though I will certainly continue my efforts. It is now up to Parliament to explain to these people that privacy is a fundamental human right of Canadians—
We would add “of Quebeckers”
that must be respected, rather than treated with the apparent indifference that the Government is showing.
I would like my colleague to comment on this sentence and to tell us how much he thinks we can contribute through this debate to raising the necessary level of interest, rather than lulling Canadians into indifference the way the government is doing.