Industry committee  Historically, there are two ways you can do this. You can do it the way that is included in PIPEDA, which is to put the onus on the organization to ensure that, when data is transferred anywhere to a service provider, whether that is in Canada or elsewhere, the same legal protect

Industry committee  On the powers of the commissioner, there are several things in the bill about the new powers of the commissioner, the penalties and the sanctions, etc., that I think are improvements and for which advocates have been calling for a long time. The current situation in PIPEDA, wher

Industry committee  Thank you for that question. I was trying to draw, in that statement, a distinction between harmonizational convergence, which is a harmonization of text ensuring that the statutes essentially say the same thing, and interoperability, which I think means something subtlely diffe

Industry committee  Thank you for reading that work. I first wrote about this issue about 10 years ago, when I issued a report to then commissioner Stoddart on political parties and privacy. It was obvious back then that there was a major gap in our law. Then Cambridge Analytica came along, and the

Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'm from the University of Victoria, although I'm currently in Australia. I wish everybody a good day. I would like to emphasize five specific areas for reform of the CPPA and to suggest ways in which the bill might be brought into better alignme