Mrs. Philippa Lawson at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On May 15th, 2007. See this statement in context.

May 15th, 2007 / 10:40 a.m.

Executive Director, Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic

Both, federal and provincial.

In terms of the class actions, we are recommending specific amendments to PIPEDA. If you look at our recommendations numbers 1 to 7 in our submission of November 28 on PIPEDA reform, we're saying the provinces, particularly Quebec, have a very effective class action system. The problem is that complainants under PIPEDA have no way of pursuing those complaints in a Quebec class action right now. You need to amend PIPEDA in a way that allows them to use the class action system to pursue their complaints.

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