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Information & Ethics committee Yes, at first, in the sense of trying to adapt to a new law, to create processes in the firm to respond to it. But they do not begrudge that, because as I said, this is an industry whose very livelihood is dependent on good privacy protection. Except that once you go through a wh
December 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Information & Ethics committee I would say we have no indication that where there's an order-making power, there's better implementation of privacy protection. In other words, the ombudsman process is simpler and more straightforward for both complainants and the companies involved, and it seems to be producin
December 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Information & Ethics committee About 70% of our members are small companies and 30% are larger companies, 70% Canadian-based. It's a very international industry, maybe about 30% multinationals—not the same overlap, because there are some Canadian-based multinationals. They're involved in computers, all kinds o
December 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Information & Ethics committee I would feel uneasy about that. I think the brunt of what people see going on and the statistics quoted by Professor Kerr show there really isn't a problem. I would hesitate to say we're going to legislate another regulatory body just because we think we might be able to improve
December 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Information & Ethics committee We haven't addressed this issue either. Mr. Kerr's comments seem reasonable, but that is no reason to add special powers in the legislation. I have nothing more to add.
December 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Information & Ethics committee It's not an issue that we have addressed as an association, so we have no expertise to bring.
December 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Information & Ethics committee If I may add something, when I talked earlier about being careful not to amend the law if it's not really necessary, as I heard from the Canadian Bar Association, there's one category of information for investigations pertaining to litigation. We have no views on that. That might
December 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Information & Ethics committee I can try to give you an answer, Mrs. Lavalée. The law we are talking about does not prevent the disclosure of identity. The commissioner decides on a case-by-case basis whether this is reasonable or not.
December 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Information & Ethics committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ms. Seigel will deliver our presentation, but I would like to say a few words first to put it into context. Our association represents Canadian information and communications technologies, or the ICT industry, including everything to do with computers, sof
December 11th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Government Operations committee In our business, it's very often how you define what you're going to buy. Just to give you an example, you can take on a project to develop a solution that can generate considerable savings. You might decide that you need your best capable person to run that project and that pers
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Government Operations committee That's right. If you define that you're going to buy a desktop based only on the cost of the box--and I'm not saying they do this--if you take into account the applications it comes with, how complex and expensive it's going to be maintain and upgrade, who's going to do the upgra
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Government Operations committee Perhaps I may say on that one that the objective to cut the cost of procurement by 10% and the cycle time of procurement by 50% are the good kinds of objectives to have. We have small members who have practically given up on trying to sell services to the government because it's
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Government Operations committee Oh yes, the channels of communication are there, and we are looking forward to getting the results.
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Government Operations committee We have the same issue, but a little bit of a different perspective because of what our members sell. Our small members are quite prepared to compete for government business. They're mainly interested, large or small, in selling solutions, and in selling technologically advanced
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois
Government Operations committee Maybe I'll start by saying that in our case we do participate on a regular basis in consultations with the government. We've been trying hard to help improve a process that really is in need of tremendous improvement, because government buys in a way that's much more complex than
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Bernard Courtois