Information & Ethics Committee on Oct. 25th, 2017

Evidence of meeting #73 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was c-58.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-58, Act to amend the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
Committee Business

MPs speaking

Bob Zimmer
Nathan Cullen
Peter Kent
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith
Mona Fortier
Jacques Gourde
Erin Weir
Michel Picard

Also speaking

Clerk of the Committee  Mr. Hugues La Rue
Nick Taylor-Vaisey  President, Canadian Association of Journalists
Kathleen Walsh  Director of Policy, Evidence for Democracy
Drew McArthur  Acting Commissioner, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
Katie Gibbs  Executive Director, Evidence for Democracy
Daniel Therrien  Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

5:20 p.m.

Conservative

Peter Kent Conservative Thornhill, ON

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair.

5:20 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Zimmer

Thank you, Commissioner Therrien, for coming again today.

We have some committee business that will take about five minutes. We're going to briefly suspend and go to committee business in two minutes.

[Proceedings continue in camera]