Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to revisit data privacy with the lens of foreign interference, which we've been talking about in Parliament.
Five years ago, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner issued an alert on contracting out and said that those services “can raise certain risks for privacy”—I think about Canadians here—and that it's “important to consider the privacy implications”. For federal government institutions, the Privacy Commissioner made some recommendations. Those included defining the “ownership of the information” when contracting out, recognizing “individuals' rights of access to their personal information” in regard to contracting out, restricting “further uses of the personal data” to contractors, protecting “information against unauthorized disclosure” and having written into contracts “retention and disposal criteria”.
All of that is top of mind for me and the NDP right now as we think about protecting Canadians. Has this been taken on and adopted in regard to outsourcing at Global Affairs?