Joanne Thompson at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On November 14th, 2022. See this statement in context.

November 14th, 2022 / 12:05 p.m.

Liberal

Joanne Thompson Liberal St. John's East, NL

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you to the witnesses.

Canada has two privacy acts. The first, obviously, is the Privacy Act, which covers how the federal government handles personal information. The second is the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, which covers how businesses handle personal information.

Understanding that we have the added layer of health information in the ArriveCAN app, Ms. O'Gorman, would you speak to the challenges you and your department faced in developing support for the ArriveCAN app based on the sensitivity of health information?

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