Information & Ethics committee  Well, in your package here, we have a number of suggestions about what you can do to protect yourself online, particularly with things like phishing tactics and so forth. The biggest piece of advice, I think, is to be very careful. The fundamental issue is this: don't reveal per

Information & Ethics committee  With respect, Parliament has already done a review of the act and has delivered its views, and the government will be responding to those shortly. I think we need to get that process of reform under our belts before we look at new threats or new problems or new issues with respec

Information & Ethics committee  No, I simply meant to say that the government is on the record to say that it will be reviewing the act in due course, and that date is yet to be determined. But the government is on record to say that it is intending to amend it.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Chair. Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today regarding identity theft. As you mentioned, I'm the director general of the office of consumer affairs, which is a part of the strategic policy sector at Industry Canada. I would like to discuss a number of

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Dicerni. The amounts outlined in the estimates paper are pretty clear, and they've been very stable over the last few years, and certainly in terms of our planned spending are stable at about $4.6 million a year and about 23 FTEs. That has been pretty consistent.

Industry committee  That's correct.

Industry committee  Basically, it's consumer organizations that are non-profits and are based across the country, mostly in Ontario and Quebec. They're typically relatively small organizations. We also get about half a dozen who receive funding from the program most years, and there's usually a hand

Industry committee  No, we're not working on a report right now. We're working more on the international approach to standardize and harmonize, so we've got something to refer to. As the other speakers have said, a lot of this stuff is inherently borderless, and one of the things you want to do is

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Thibeault. We are doing work internationally on this. As you know, mobile payments are a very new development. There are lots of different platforms out there, so lots of different ways in which companies are presenting the transactions. The OECD consumer policy

Industry committee  That is very much the case. A number of jurisdictions are very keen to proceed. They recognize this as a big problem. There has been--and I would emphasize this again--five years of discussion among governments about the appropriate way to proceed. There's a lot of common underst

Industry committee  The discussions took place over a very long period of time, about five years, and part of this reflected, I think, to some extent, the very changing character of the industry. These discussions took place as the industry is rapidly changing across the country. To be frank, some j

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank the committee for allowing me to speak today on this very important consumer issue of payday lending. I'd like to introduce my colleague David Clarke, who has been the senior policy officer on this issue for the past number of years. He is a