Evidence of meeting #10 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was year.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Privacy Commissioner, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
I was at Montreal airport recently on my way back from Washington. I heard two businessmen talking. One was saying that he thought that signing up for the Nexus program was great because everything moves much more quickly.
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Bloc
Carole Freeman Bloc Châteauguay—Saint-Constant, QC
Thank you.
Mr. Chair is indicating that my time is up.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Yes. Mr. Siksay can honestly say that he doesn't abuse his schedule. I'm not sure that you can use that excuse--
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Voices
Oh, oh!
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
--but it evens out over time.
We have only a few minutes and we do have motions to deal with and a couple of other things.
First of all, I want to thank you, Commissioner, and your whole team for keeping us apprised of a very broad scope of issues. I was thinking about it during the meeting and getting a little concerned about our ability to keep up, to support you, and to be engaged. I think that over time, particularly with the emergence of Facebook--this is probably the tip of the iceberg--committees such as ours may not be able to handle four commissioners; we may need to have two commissioners--and we'll still be very busy. We'll have to watch for this.
I should mention to everyone that April 30 is the deadline for the Minister of Justice to respond to our committee on quick fixes on privacy, as well as to our report on access. I have not received those responses yet. I will prompt again.
As soon as we get them, Commissioner, we will certainly make sure that you also have a copy of the minister's responses.
Colleagues, we have to pose the motion on the estimates, so I'll put it now.
Shall vote 45 under Justice, less the amounts voted in interim supply, carry?
JUSTICE Offices of the Information and Privacy Commissioners of Canada Vote 45--Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada--Program expenditures..........$20,099,000
(Vote 45 agreed to)
Shall I report the main estimates to the House?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Thank you kindly.
Thank you to our witnesses and to all of our colleagues.
The meeting is adjourned.