Madam Speaker, that is because essentially New Democrats fought for and then received these assurances. A request was actually sent by us to the Privacy Commissioner, so the information was in process.
By the way, this type of pilot project never existed prior to the Liberals making changes to the law. That is a problem, as it would not exist without the law changing. The Liberals can characterize it as a pilot project, but what it does is actually change the law to allow them to do it.
I am kind of perplexed by their continuing insinuations about it, because how would it even exist in the first place? They are trying to deny it because they are responsible for it and it was a bad decision. What we had was the Privacy Commissioner stepping in, doing their job and doing it very effectively. That is who is now providing the assurances.
I hope the parliamentary secretary supports our Crown copyright amendments, because that will alleviate some of the problems about privacy and provide more data for scientists, researchers and economists across this country.