Mr. Chair, I actually have no idea where the number of 33 million came from. Through the Telus contract, there were a maximum of approximately nine million people who had consented and whose data was used through the Telus “data for good” platform, and approximately five million whose data was used through the BlueDot contract. Because the data is de-identified and aggregated, we have no idea where the overlap between those two datasets might be. The actual number is somewhere between nine million and 14 million.
On February 3rd, 2022. See this statement in context.