Ms. McLeod also said, “We are concerned about whether the inclusion of the tribunal as an appeal body to the Privacy Commissioner's orders would impact our ability to conduct joint investigations.”
Will the department acknowledge that, as it is right now, the privacy commissioner of Alberta still has outstanding concerns about the ability of the Privacy Commissioner, in conjunction with the tribunal, if this legislation passes, to conduct joint investigations, and that there needs to be some work between Industry Canada and those respective provincial bodies to find a mutually agreeable approach if investigations are going to go forward in the future?
What we heard—and we haven't heard anything different from the privacy commissioner of Alberta—is that right now their interpretation is different from yours.