Information & Ethics committee  Yes. The question is, is this the better way to go and complain? I think Professor Bennett talked at length about this, and there is some debate about what's the best way to go. There's a best way for the complainant and a best way for privacy protection in general. If you make

Information & Ethics committee  It's been operating that way since the beginning. I think it's one of these things where they can make it public if there's a strong public interest; otherwise, it's not. I imagine that not every case would be seen as having strong public interest. It would be very constrained an

Information & Ethics committee  I think the Alberta and B.C. are fairly—

Information & Ethics committee  I think the Alberta and B.C. legislation are fairly similar and the Quebec is different, but I have to admit that I'm not as familiar with the Quebec legislation as I should be. What I've been concerned with in my research is gathering the variety of ways in which the privacy of

Information & Ethics committee  I'm still thinking about your previous question. I want to distinguish between two kinds of surveillance, private and public surveillance. When I go into a bank and it has cameras, I'm on its property, and it, in using those cameras, has legitimate use and would have to specify,

Information & Ethics committee  I think it's not solely legislation. I think what's important--and I think I addressed it very briefly in one of the recommendations I made--is that the offices of the privacy commissioners, both federally and provincially, should have, as part of their responsibility, education

Information & Ethics committee  Probably not, in general. The Internet itself presents a mystery for most people if they arrive to it without understanding how it operates. For example, a few years ago no one I talked to knew what “cookies” were. They thought it was the usual thing. That's because when we buy a

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the invitation. I represent two organizations here, actually, the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. On February 9, 1999, I appeared before the Standing Committee on Industry to present my views on behal

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Making absolute statements is a problem. While I certainly am sympathetic to not putting the sources of newspapers in the public domain, that's not government; that's the operation of the free press. I have much more sympathy for the free press protecting its sources than for gov

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I would agree. Nothing should be automatic. It's not that they shouldn't get it, but it should be clear and public. It isn't automatic that you don't ask questions because it's not available.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It should be clear that many of the things that government does should have records. There shouldn't be things done and then in a request for what happened and how the decision was made, it's oh, we don't have anything on that.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I'm having an audio problem. Perhaps Mr. Tromp would like to say something.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I'm sorry, I missed the question.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  That's not necessarily the case. It may be the case now, but it shouldn't be the case. The Privacy Commissioner should be much more active in saying “You can't use that for this reason”. But if they're not doing it, they're not doing it--

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I'm sorry.