Mr. Robert Marleau at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On May 13th, 2009. See this statement in context.

May 13th, 2009 / 4:15 p.m.

Information Commissioner, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada

Sir, I've heard that question and commented on it before. The system is currently open worldwide. They only have to use data brokers in order to get at it. So I'd say the cost would be marginal. I think FIPA said in their testimony it would be marginal.

It's $43 million. If you add my office, that's another $8 million on top. That's about $52 or $53 million. Divided by 33 million Canadians, that's $1.56—or a double-double at Timmy's—per Canadian.

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