Mr. Daniel Therrien at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On March 10th, 2016. See this statement in context.

March 10th, 2016 / 9:15 a.m.

Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

I'm not asking for it; I'm not rejecting it. I'll say that in British Columbia my equivalent colleague does have jurisdiction over political parties under the equivalent of PIPEDA, the private sector legislation in British Columbia. So it's certainly an option.

I'm not asking for this. There might be others who would be able to do this. We have expertise in terms of privacy that would make us one of the candidates to have that mandate.

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