Information & Ethics committee  Yes, that's certainly possible. There may be different reasons.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  Maybe I can pass it to Pierre.

Information & Ethics committee  From our perspective, similar to our colleagues in DND, privacy impact assessments are about protecting the information and ensuring that, from our perspective, the information we have is gathered the right way, we're using it the right way, we're protecting the integrity of the information and, as discussed previously, we're reinforcing trust across government and departments.

Information & Ethics committee  It's definitely extremely important from our perspective. Being new in the role—as Pierre is as well—it is something that's extremely important to us. We want to continue to monitor progress in that space as we move along.

Information & Ethics committee  From our perspective, the tool has never been used. If we were to use it, we have PIAs ready to go and available should that be the case. We would be using this only further to our security mandate and by ensuring we follow the right protocols, which we have in place. Should this tool be necessary to investigate, then we would do a privacy assessment prior to using the tool.

Information & Ethics committee  We have not on this one, per se. We have a team within the department that's responsible for this. I can reassure you that we have been in constant communication and discussion with them. Pierre and I, being new to the department, want to continue the great work that's being done in that space.

Information & Ethics committee  Good morning. From our perspective, like we said at the beginning in our opening remarks, we did purchase the tool. It was a tool we've purchased to have in our tool kit, and we have not used it from our perspective. One thing I wanted to reiterate and assure the committee of is that, should we plan on using the tool, that would be done only through a security mandate and clear protocols would be followed.

Information & Ethics committee  From an NRCan perspective, we have tools and we have to monitor our system and so forth from that perspective. We ensure we are respectful and we support the policies around all of that. From our perspective, there are tools we are using to ensure we gather information, but it's done in the context of TBS policies and so forth.

Information & Ethics committee  The tool we've talked about, the forensic, has never been used, and should it be used, it would only be used internally. All the monitoring systems we have from our perspective in that space are used for internal purposes for within the organization and for administrative purposes in line with security requirements following a clear security mandate as we move forward.

Information & Ethics committee  Good morning, and thank you very much. Thank you for this opportunity to speak about Natural Resources Canada's use of technological tools to safeguard our technological and data assets and ensure the consistent evolution and growth of our scientific endeavours. I would like to recognize that I am speaking to you from the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people.