Mr. Speaker, again, I think the intention of the bill is absolutely to address those kinds of consumer questions. This is what consumers want and expect from our government. We already have a high degree of privacy protection, but the bill would take it one step further.
We want to know that we can do business, that we can provide our information to the companies that are reputable and that we are used to doing business with, that the information will be protected, and that there are rules around it if there are privacy breaches. I think what most Canadians are actually concerned about is hackers and that kind of thing getting into a legitimate business' information system and how the consumer would be protected.
This law would strongly encourage businesses, through a large number of provisions, including very substantial fines, to make sure that they are upping their privacy provisions to make sure that they are protecting Canadians online.
Again, I would urge the members opposite to support this bill.