Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses.
Mr. Goldfarb, I don't know if you're related to that famous Goldfarb pollster or not. You are. Okay. He was one of the innovators of polling in Canada. I don't know if he's your father, but he did great work.
I come at this as a marketing person when I look through this, and I know how much my colleagues—I won't say me—would push the envelope on analyzing data. This act is a brand new act—I'm talking about the privacy part—that would replace everything. The hole that's there in the buildup—as I mentioned to Dr. Guilmain—is from the “Purpose” section through to proposed section 15, “Consent”, and proposed subsection 18(3). I didn't mention proposed section 35, which allows the movement of data without a person's consent. It doesn't say it's limited to academic purposes, as PIPEDA does now.
Doesn't that actually create a big hole that marketers can exploit, combined with these weak consent provisions that are still there, and allow companies to still utilize your data, change the terms of reference, create new data uses without your permission and even—in the case of proposed subsection 18(3)—harm you? They can actually use it to harm you.
Does it not do that?