Bob Bratina at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On October 4th, 2016. See this statement in context.

October 4th, 2016 / 12:15 p.m.

Liberal

Bob Bratina Liberal Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, ON

Let me go on.

The Privacy Commissioner has recommended to “Grant the Privacy Commissioner discretion to publicly report on government privacy issues when in the public interest”. I'm curious about that, because the Privacy Commissioner does have the power to issue special reports. These are typically annual reports to Parliament.

Perhaps I'll direct this first to Newfoundland and Labrador, but with the awareness that the Privacy Commissioner can make comments throughout the year at his discretion, I wonder whether there would be pressure on him, almost every day or week, to come up with media responses to any number of issues. Do you see any danger in that?

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