Information & Ethics committee  The existence of the incentive or bonus, if there is one, would probably be disclosed but not the actual amount that the individual received. So it would be like the salary range. It tells you they're in a job that pays, depending on...but not the exact detail. So I think that wo

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I do. In looking at this, I think that's a very important point. Nova Scotia publishes the salaries of all officials earning $100,000 or more. That was adopted in December 2010. Newfoundland posts the salaries and expenses of elected officials. That was in 2007. In Ontario,

Information & Ethics committee  Ms. Borg, I honestly have nothing to tell you on that subject. As I told you, since we do little work with this part of the act, I do not know. We have not examined the question very closely as there is no obvious privacy-related aspect to it. I do not know whether our senior ge

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Okay. Well, I guess it's perhaps a challenge to resume that, but certainly for the Privacy Commissioner to be able to go to court and seek enforceable orders it would be, I think, a step forward. I also think that the public, increasingly, can look after their own privacy

Information & Ethics committee  Honourable member, I'd like to be able to give you more information, but as I say, I'm a specialist on neither CBC and journalistic sources, nor access to information. I really don't have anything that I could helpfully add.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, no, but we don't deal with a lot of these issues. They are usually referred to the access to information—

Information & Ethics committee  In preparing for this appearance, we did some research on the various provincial disclosure requirements. Some provinces have none. There is a range of requirements. I tried to give you an idea of the range.

Information & Ethics committee  I wonder if the ranges also are linked to the size of the civil service. They're not necessarily. I see, for example, that Nova Scotia publishes salaries of all officials earning $100,000 or more. Those are salaries, I read, not salary bands, which is what we do federally. Ontari

Information & Ethics committee  No, there's no scheme for damages in the Privacy Act.

Information & Ethics committee  I recently looked at the evolution of privacy legislation around the world. I note that some of them introduce class action options. These are usually written in such a simple way that ordinary citizens can easily go to a court or one person can constitute a class on a certain to

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  This committee did go into this question in some depth years ago. We stand by all those recommendations. I guess the issue is basically that privacy is not taken seriously enough, both in the private sector—I've spoken about this recently—and in the public sector unless there a

Information & Ethics committee  That's right, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Perhaps I could refer the committee to the previous work we've done on that question, and—

Information & Ethics committee  As I recall, there's an obligation on the secondary institution to consult. This is not their personal information, or they got it from another institution, so I believe they cannot simply.... You can only release personal information in very strict situations, and usually to the