Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to what almost seems like our weekly regular witnesses and officials. I appreciate that.
In the minister's opening testimony here in September on Bill C-27, he said, “we will propose an amendment to recognize a fundamental right to privacy for Canadians.”
In the letter that was sent to the committee in response to our production of documents resolution from about a week and a half ago, the details of number one on page 1 of the appendix of the letter are that they will amend clause 5 “to qualify the right to privacy as a fundamental right.” There's stuff in there about the preamble, but ultimately the preamble doesn't matter because it has no legal basis once the statute is passed.
Clause 5 of Bill C-27 reads, “The purpose of this Act is to establish...rules to govern the protection of personal information in a manner that recognizes the right of privacy of individuals with respect to their personal information and the need of organizations to collect, use or disclose personal information”.
Can you tell me which words in that clause will change?