Mr. Kristjan Backman at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On September 25th, 2017. See this statement in context.

September 25th, 2017 / 4:35 p.m.

Chair, National Association for Information Destruction - Canada

I'll just add that in 1990 when we passed PIPEDA, Canada was the forefront of privacy legislation. We moved the needle across the globe and in a lot of ways the GDPR is the next step of our initial legislation. It's just that we went to sleep on this for 20 years, so it's time.

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