Bill C-475 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (order-making power)

This bill was last introduced in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session, which ended in August 2015.

This bill was previously introduced in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session.

Sponsor

Charmaine Borg NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Second reading (House), as of May 23, 2013
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament often publishes better independent summaries.

This enactment amends the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act to, among other things, give the Privacy Commissioner the power to make compliance orders and the Federal Court the power to impose fines in cases of non-compliance.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Votes

Jan. 29, 2014 Failed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.

March 21st, 2013 / 10:10 a.m.

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Committee Researcher

Michel Bédard

Yes. In Bill C-475, for example, there is a provision to authorize the commissioner to take action against an organization that has lost private information. There is no similar provision in Bill C-12. That's an example.

Also, if you want to proceed to a detailed analysis of the two bills, we could. For example, under Bill C-12, when there is a loss of information the organization is compelled to notify the individual, whereas under Bill C-475 the notification would only be applicable if the Privacy Commissioner ordered that there be a notification.

So they are similar, but there are some distinctions as well, and there are also other provisions in Bill C-475 that are not in Bill C-12.

March 21st, 2013 / 10:10 a.m.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Dave MacKenzie

We move on to Bill C-475.

Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents ActRoutine Proceedings

February 26th, 2013 / 10:05 a.m.

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NDP

Charmaine Borg NDP Terrebonne—Blainville, QC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-475, An Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (order-making power).

Mr. Speaker, over the past several years Canadians have witnessed what the Conservative privacy agenda has to offer: online snooping bills and inaction on data breaches.

Today I am presenting the NDP's vision of personal information protection. This bill will encourage compliance with Canadian laws and ensure that individuals are notified when their information has been compromised.

In our increasingly digital world, Canadians can no longer wait for the government to modernize our outdated privacy laws. Inaction means greater risk to the security of the personal information of millions of children, seniors and all other Canadians online.

Canadians and Quebeckers should feel perfectly safe using new digital technology. We can encourage Internet users to be fully involved in the digital economy by giving them the confidence to put personal information online.

My bill proposes positive and balanced privacy protections that are needed in the digital age.

I hope that all of the members in the House will vote in favour of this much-needed legislation so that the privacy of their constituents, their children and their families will be well protected.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)