Canada is very active on the global stage and there are many networks, including the global privacy enforcement network, the G7 data protection and privacy authorities round table, which we spoke about earlier, and the Asia Pacific privacy authorities forum. We work closely with Japan, Korea and Singapore. There are also commissioners in Hong Kong that we work with. I must say that we have productive discussions on privacy and what we would like to see as privacy commissioners.
However, I’ve not had any interactions on privacy with the Chinese government, only with my counterparts. We try to speak with one voice, the strongest voice possible, and this has allowed us to issue a number of statements on privacy. That said, during our investigation into TikTok, for example, we expressed concern that the Chinese government had expanded powers to obtain information from private companies, and we wanted TikTok to state there was a possibility data could be sent to China and made accessible in that context.
