Peter Kent at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On February 28th, 2019. See this statement in context.

February 28th, 2019 / 4:05 p.m.

Conservative

Peter Kent Conservative Thornhill, ON

Okay.

I have a chicken and egg question. The EU has brought in the general data protection regulation, or GDPR. There have been suggestions that Canada is far behind with regard to the protection of privacy, which has now been enabled—perhaps over-enabled or overprotected in some aspects—in Europe. Before digital government is implemented in Canada, would you suggest the writing of regulations similar to the privacy protections and guarantees of the GDPR?

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