Ms. Susan Gardner-Barclay at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

This is a little outside our area of expertise, but the second tax preparer would have to have obtained authorization from the taxpayer to be able to access any of the information that is available online. I am aware of no scenario where a tax preparer could simply find that information without obtaining the appropriate authorization. Our controls on this are very strict. We use the same technological controls that major Canadian financial institutions use to be able to manage access to that sort of information that may be available online.