Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Therrien, thank you. I'll join the rest of the committee in thanking you for your service, sir.
You made a great statement in the text of your remarkts that it is “neither realistic nor reasonable to ask individuals to consent to all possible uses of their data in today’s complex information economy”, and you specifically mentioned AI. You also said, “While disruptive technologies have undeniable benefits, they must not be permitted to disrupt the duty of a democratic government to maintain its capacity to protect the fundamental rights and values of its citizens.”
We're going to start with a case study just to kind of go through this. What I'd like to do is to try to relate this to changes that we need to make to Bill C-11, whenever it comes back to us. Yesterday you made a statement regarding mass surveillance of Canadians through the Tim Hortons app. Canadians who downloaded this popular app learned that their movements were being tracked every few minutes. You rightly pointed out that this kind of tracking can reveal to the company where people live, work and go to school, even where they may take medical appointments.
When it comes to Bill C-11, what changes do we need to see so that this doesn't happen further to Canadians?