Thank you for that question. It's a really important one.
You have to start from the right place. I respectfully disagree with Monsieur Labonté. Facial recognition systems use our face. That is some of the most sensitive personal information we have. Faces are recognized in Canadian privacy law as a piece of personally identifiable information; therefore, they are within the scope of the law.
The best way to protect people across Canada from inappropriate uses of this technology truly is to think through how it needs to be regulated. As a first step, a positive example that this committee might wish to consider is contained in the proposed U.S. Senate bill, Bill S.3284, the ethical use of facial recognition act, which would establish a congressional committee or commission to consider and create guidelines for the use of facial recognition technology in the United States.