Raj Saini at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On February 23rd, 2017. See this statement in context.

February 23rd, 2017 / 4:20 p.m.

Liberal

Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON

Thank you very much.

I want to start off with one point. Canada, having recently signed CETA, is going to be under some pressure to rise to the level of the GDPR, general data protection regulation, that will come into effect in May 2018 in Europe. There are stark differences between what we currently have and what has been indicated in the GDPR. One is data erasure and privacy by design and by default.

Could you give a broad outline to the committee as to what significant or important areas we should focus on? I guess ultimately we'll have to rise to that level to do business with Europe. Are there any key indicators you feel we should focus on?

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