I wanted to pull up the section of the bill before I speak to the amendment.
This relates to the privacy policies that political parties are required to file with Elections Canada.
Under the bill, proposed paragraph 36(1)(j) provides that political parties are prohibited, “as well as any person or entity acting on the party's behalf, including the party's candidates, electoral district associations, officers, agents, employees, volunteers and representatives, from”—and this is where the amendment would be—“(1) providing false or misleading information to individuals about the purposes for which the party collects personal information”.
This simply adds the word “knowingly”, which recognizes that political parties often operate on a volunteer basis and that false or misleading information could be inadvertently or unintentionally provided to someone. This would simply provide that it would apply where such false information is knowingly given.