Information & Ethics committee  The RCMP does have a very co-operative, collaborative, and constructive relationship with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. We don't necessarily consult them at the beginning of a draft policy that's in the works, but doing so would be in our interest as the policy starts t

Information & Ethics committee  I would add that we follow exactly the same process as our colleagues from CBSA do, including having a close relationship with our departmental security officer. They're usually reported in as security breaches. The concern we would have is with the mandatory reporting of all p

Information & Ethics committee  I would think we would have the same concerns with regard to the implications of opening both the Privacy Act—and I know it's not the mandate—and the Access to Information Act to foreign nationals, just with regard to our ability to comply with the legislation, and, I suspect as

Information & Ethics committee  Perhaps I could just answer quickly by referring to one of the programs for which we did a privacy impact assessment. It's listed in our annual report. It's called the Identity Insight program. It's software that enables the real-time analysis of operational data from multiple so

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Like CBSA, the RCMP does conduct privacy impact assessments for any new programs or any programs that are substantially amended. Last year, for 2015-16, we completed three privacy impact assessments, and provided three addenda to previously submitted privacy impact as

Information & Ethics committee  There's also the ongoing training of our employees so that they understand exactly what their responsibilities are—i.e., to share information or not.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll answer part of the question and then I'll turn the floor over to my colleague, if you don't mind. As mentioned by my colleagues from the agency, our employees receive ongoing training and in-depth training. Privacy policies are in place. The employees responsible for access

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to appear before this committee to assist in your review of the Privacy Act. This is an important review, given the profound changes in society, and the security landscape changes since the Privacy Act came into force in 1983. The RCMP

Finance committee  I'll start by answering the first part of your question. Very few people in the RCMP or any other organization are actually authorized to know the identity of the person who submits an access to information or privacy request. In that sense, we're not sure exactly who submits the

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I indicated in my remarks, at the time we were working with the requester to process his information. We eventually provided him with the information that was contained in a previous access to information request, which he was allowed to have, and which

Finance committee  We would prefer not to comment on draft legislation at this time.

Finance committee  Thank you. I would like to start by providing background on a file that was investigated by the Information Commissioner. The investigation is based on a single access to information request received on March 27, 2012, for access to the RCMP database regarding the gun registry.

Finance committee  I would like to emphasize my colleague's opening remarks, namely, that the RCMP takes its obligations under the Access to Information Act seriously. As an organization, the RCMP responded to over 9,700 Access to Information requests in 2014, and since 2006, we have responded to o