Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chairman, I picked the ten quick fixes on the advice of my staff because I thought they were important but also fairly easy and less multilateral; there were fewer multilateral implications of addressing them. I know that the amendments to the Privacy Act are a long and con

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I do.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, we've completed that, and it's been piloted, as I understand, starting maybe a week or two ago. It's on its pilot runs.

Information & Ethics committee  This is part of our plan to maybe do a smarter handling of complaints, trying to give them the treatment they deserve in terms of their significance, their weight, of what they can add to our knowledge of privacy, trying to mediate complaints up front so that they don't go on and

Information & Ethics committee  The other fixes? I'll just try to find them for you, because we have quite a few other ones. I'll just go down it, because this is a distillation of what is in a long paper that we published in 2006, and it's also a distillation of what some of the many expert witnesses say to yo

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm saying that, personally, I don't know, but I imagine the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has an idea. There's also a publication entitled “Info Source”, which is a list of all government data bases. In my opinion, “Info Source” doesn't provide us with ve

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly, but I suggested in the report I prepared on the need to improve the Privacy Act that these kinds of agreements should be submitted to Parliament.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  They are made party to party between the officials responsible for the files.

Information & Ethics committee  No, Parliament isn't aware of it.

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly, the two countries can enter into a party-to-party agreement to exchange certain lists of personal information, which is perfectly legal under the present act, and there is no obligation to publish details.

Information & Ethics committee  We are calculating right now, if all things stay equal in our model, we should be able to eliminate that backlog by the first quarter of 2010.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for that question. In fact we're redoing our process, because we're trying to push the limits of the present legislation a bit. We don't have a lot of discretion, but we do have some. Given the number of privacy challenges for Canadians, we want to make sure we get to