Hi.
Members of the committee, ladies and gentlemen, good morning.
I am Ann MacKenzie, privacy officer of the Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company. Presenting with me today is Vivian Bercovici. Until recently, Vivian was general counsel at the Dominion, and she continues to advise us in private practice. We appreciate the opportunity to present our views and concerns directly to this committee.
We have provided a booklet of materials to you, which includes our submissions made in September 2006 to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner regarding a statutory review. The bound material starts with our table of contents. It's followed by today's written submission. The tab materials that follow it support our written submission, and the French and English versions are separated by blue pages. The French translation of our oral presentation will be provided later, in a few days.
The Privacy Commissioner has provided this committee with a summary of submissions that can be found at tab 5 of our material. I note that certain positions put forward by the Dominion in our September 2006 submission to her do not appear to be reflected in the OPCC résumé. So today we intend to focus our comments on two issues: first, the matter of solicitor–client privilege, PIPEDA, and the recent Federal Court of Appeal decision in the Blood Tribe case; and secondly, the right of the respondent to appeal a complaint made to the Privacy Commissioner under PIPEDA.
Vivian will now present our position regarding the first issue, solicitor–client privilege and related issues.