Madam Speaker, one of my concerns is that the bill before us will go to the legislative committee at the end of this debate, which will be very brief. I am not sure if we will have the opportunity for an indepth debate for the entire House of Commons as a result of the procedures that we are taking in handling the bill.
I would like to ask the member opposite a hypothetical question if he does not mind. He was speaking about the civil liberties issue, the privacy issues and the security issues, and he is absolutely right that this is extremely sensitive. In his mind does he think the information of persons who are in transit to this country or who have left this country's shores should be treated differently than the information that the authorities hold on people in this country?
I note, for his assistance in deliberating on this question, that there is amendment in this bill to the electronic Privacy Act which would permit the passenger manifest information gathered under the bill to be shared with foreign countries. Could he give the House the benefit of his views on this?