Procedure and House Affairs committee  The 10 basic privacy principles that you find in PIPEDA that are inspired—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it should be in law. I think they need to be required to do that and I think there should be some oversight.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Ideally, I think it's the Privacy Commissioner. He's the expert in that area, but there may be other options. We've recommended other options in the past.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I think it's important that we be prudent about how personal information is used in the context of the electoral competition.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We don't know a whole lot.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I did not inquire, and I was not informed as to the reasons they were doing a second set of letters.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think the process indicated that there was a 30-day posting, but that names would be received until an appointment was formally made. I think it's standard for all senior appointments. I believe that was the understanding from the outset of the process.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The only thing I was made aware of, I think it was the day before the Star article came out, was that letters would be going out or had just gone out, and I was not on those letters.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Correct. That's all I know.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If I remember correctly, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not good with dates, but if I remember correctly it was around the end of September that a posting was done for the position, and I submitted my application within a couple days of that posting. I was quite ready for it to happen, and that's when it happened.