Information & Ethics committee  As I said before, if that's your decision as a governing Parliament—

Information & Ethics committee  Correct.

Information & Ethics committee  That would be in line with our policy, so yes.

Information & Ethics committee  As I said, I think that's a good suggestion, and if it fits with our policy, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Once again, I'll leave it up to Parliament and your committee to make a recommendation on that. My role with the party is to protect our lists and to follow our policies. I think we have a very good, leading privacy policy, but as for whether it should be in place, I leave that—

Information & Ethics committee  I would say the same, yes. We have no—

Information & Ethics committee  In 2011, the situation as described was in one riding. It was in the riding of Guelph. The young individual you identified was a member of the campaign in Guelph. He was a member of that team and thus did have access to the database for the region for which he was responsible, which was Guelph.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll start off once again. Thank you. We have a very similar process to that laid out by my colleague Mr. Fenrick. We receive our data from four main sources. We're very up front about all of these. The primary one we don't purchase. It's provided to us as part of the electors list from Elections Canada.

Information & Ethics committee  I could start off on that one. You're absolutely right. They are separate. They are different. We currently operate under a different legislative situation, with PIPEDA coverage for private companies and not covering us as political parties. My role with the party is to enforce our privacy policy as written, and currently it does not come up to full PIPEDA compliance, which I believe might be the suggestion there.

Information & Ethics committee  Once again, as you mentioned, there was a lot of concern around third parties and their involvement. We certainly share that concern, and we want to make sure we have fair elections in this country, obviously. We play a large part in that, and we want to continue to be able to participate in the democratic process as fully as we possibly can.

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly. Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are really two elements to protecting the data. There is protecting against unauthorized access. We're talking about data breaches and attacks on our systems. That's obviously a continuing effort for us. We have a great team on that. That's not my expertise, but I do know that we have a very good data team in place.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. My name is Trevor Bailey. I'm the Conservative Party of Canada's privacy officer. I'd like to thank the committee for inviting me here today to discuss our privacy policy, and I look forward to answering any questions you may have surrounding that policy. I've been the privacy officer for the Conservative Party for approximately one year in addition to my role as director of membership for the party.