Yes, absolutely.
In fact, this is allowed under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, which applies to the private sector. We are working with privacy commissioners from other countries and we are playing a leadership role with them in the international community. There is also the Global Privacy Assembly and countless other institutions that seek to facilitate this collaboration. It is therefore important to do this not only in Canada with the provinces and territories, but also internationally. There are of course other jurisdictions where commissioners have ruled on this.
We are sharing information, best practices and trends with some sub-groups. This allows for collaboration, determining best practices and trends and drawing conclusions that, as much as possible, will be achievable and consistent with those of different governments. This also makes things easier for organizations that have to comply with privacy requirements.
Obviously, privacy protection knows no borders and affects everyone. The more we can coordinate not just investigations, but also the promotion and development of guidelines to help organizations and prevent privacy breaches, the better off we will be. We are collaborating in all these ways.