Information & Ethics committee  We are not a backward country, but we are perhaps a little inconsistent. I repeat: in 1999, this very Parliament passed a bill that governs the private sector—this was the committee that studied it—and that requires that the legislation be reviewed every five years. Provincial le

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I would like you to move on the 12 recommendations.

Information & Ethics committee  I feel that that is perhaps the committee's role. Of all the many changes that could be made, I chose these 12 basic recommendations. They are all to be found elsewhere, either in legislation or in a directive. I think that the choice is up to you.

Information & Ethics committee  It doesn't mention, as I remember, public education at all.

Information & Ethics committee  What we find is that you have to take the general public, and because it's so different in terms of age of interest, it's fragmented. But certainly, yes, there would be things for the general public. In schools, for example, we make some information available now on PIPEDA, in co

Information & Ethics committee  My colleague the assistant commissioner thinks that perhaps the reason for the discrepancy in the notes is that it was a spokesperson from the ministry of justice who said the power was implied. It's one of these difficult questions. You think you should be informing the public

Information & Ethics committee  I think the example of the Auditor General is very useful. My understanding is that she goes four times a year. That would certainly give us more immediacy than once a year, because it ends up being a year and a half after things have happened. In this day and age, and especial

Information & Ethics committee  No, we don't. We've done two special reports to Parliament, both on the public sector. That's within my present mandate. If we speeded up the reporting cycle, that would take additional resources. My office is very small, so when we're talking about additional resources we're t

Information & Ethics committee  Actually, that is another of those curious circumstances. There is a Treasury Board directive on security and the protection of personal information. But in my experience and that of my predecessors, a Treasury Board directive does not seem to get the attention it requires from t

Information & Ethics committee  We haven't suggested changing the exemptions.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll ask Hedy Kirkby to talk about the exemptions. There are a whole series of them.

Information & Ethics committee  First, honourable member, we haven't costed it because we're crossing our fingers that it will be recommended by this committee, and then, of course, we would cost it. If committee members wish, we could supply you with the amount of our public education budget for PIPEDA to give

Information & Ethics committee  If the committee asked us for the cost, we could certainly give you some information on that very soon.

Information & Ethics committee  These changes would not address the issue of Google Street View because Google Street View is covered by the other law, so we are applying that other law to it. It is, shall we say, a challenge for the moment. The challenge isn't so much the law as it is the relative novelty of t

Information & Ethics committee  Over the years we've found that reporting on Privacy Act compliance is either absent or perfunctory, so we would like to change this from a directive to a part of the Privacy Act. We'd also like some stipulation as to what they would be reporting on. Examples might be privacy im