Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much, everyone. Thank you for your invitation to discuss our main estimates for fiscal year 2014-15. Joining me today is Daniel Nadeau, our chief financial officer and director general of corporate services, along with Maureen M

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. Yes indeed, we have been forced to rethink our way of doing things because our budget envelope has been reduced while Canadians' interest in these matters has increased. Maintaining our level of excellence is our priority, of course. As I said, we ha

Information & Ethics committee  At the moment, we are managing to make the necessary adjustments. The quality of our research program is really remarkable, as you have probably been able to see if you have looked at our website. At the moment, we are still able to fulfill our mandate in that area.

Information & Ethics committee  That is still an open question, but as I said earlier, Canadians have an increased interest in those matters. The vulnerability of the technology means that there are more and more incidents and they affect even extremely sophisticated and responsible organizations. As for next

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for that question, because it gives me the opportunity to publicly recognize our staff under the direction of Daniel Nadeau. It went amazingly well. There is obviously a need to adapt. For example, people's personal lives have been disrupted by moving to another locatio

Information & Ethics committee  Admittedly, that is speculation. I speculate that the reason we have more breach reporting is not because there are more breaches but because there is a greater awareness to report. The reason we speculate in that direction is this. When we look at the challenges in protecting

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely. I'll give you an example of how we leverage national partnerships. There are three provinces that have their own private sector legislation, and they are Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia. When a big organization, for example, LinkedIn, suffered a breach, we reac

Information & Ethics committee  Your premise is quite right. I believe it characterizes our office. Because technology and society are moving so fast in relation to privacy and personal information, indeed we never know what's going to come at us. Turning to Heartbleed, immediately when we heard about it, our

Information & Ethics committee  It's only CRA. I was informed of all the measures they were taking, including notification of the individuals concerned, and all the measures they had taken technologically. As you know, we have posted a statement on that on our website.

Information & Ethics committee  You're referring to our January 28, 2014, special report to Parliament on checks and controls where we make a specific recommendation precisely to address the accountability gap, which would be for the private entities to annually report on how many requests they answer, with som

Information & Ethics committee  We have done research precisely on that. We have “What an IP address can reveal about you” posted on our website. It sought precisely to address this question. When an IP address and the customer information behind it is revealed, is it really sensitive or is it innocuous informa

Information & Ethics committee  That is precisely what we looked at. We found—it is well described in that technical analysis—that the envelope is in itself revealing.

Information & Ethics committee  That is basic subscriber information linked to the Internet activity.

Information & Ethics committee  The overall budget is $24 million.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Last year it was $29 million. The reason for the discrepancy is what I've explained.