Michelle Rempel at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On February 24th, 2020. See this statement in context.

February 24th, 2020 / 10:15 a.m.

Conservative

Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB

Thank you, Madame Chair.

I will start my questions as they pertain to chapter 19.

Reading chapter 19, I notice that it agrees to prohibitions against restrictions on the transfer of personal information, and prohibitions requiring where computing facilities are located, and this has less policy flexibility on data localization under the CPTPP.

Can you table the analysis that shows that chapter 19 of CUSMA will not prevent Canada from adopting laws that would create similar provisions to those contained in article 20 of the GDPR or California's Consumer Privacy Act?

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