Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it is. Now that we have it before the courts, and given that there are so many issues—we just talked about identity theft and other things—it will be interesting to see what happens to this court case. Before you do a review, maybe wait for our audit, and then you will have

Information & Ethics committee  No, I wasn't aware that people were able to ask what information was on the chip and that people had refused to tell them. If we have received complaints on that matter, I am not personally aware of it.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. And that's something they've been planning to do for a long time. It should be noted that the Europeans have had that card for a number of years now. The Europeans appear to have fewer problems with bank card or credit card fraud. They expect that will enhance privacy.

Information & Ethics committee  No. I imagine there are unique identifiers because it has to be activated with a PIN, which makes it possible to confirm that it's indeed the person to whom the card was issued who is using it, as is done in Europe.

Information & Ethics committee  I would think it would. I'm looking at my colleague because she supervises the department. I haven't seen the details of it, but I would think if that kind of profiling was going on, it would come out in our audit.

Information & Ethics committee  As far as I know, we haven't done one. We could go back to the annual reports. Certainly more of this has been reported in the last year. It's gone up in the last few years. But I've heard, anecdotally, for example, from people who were involved in writing the act--senior civil s

Information & Ethics committee  Well, we haven't looked into it. Given the challenges and particularly the backlog of complaints, we try to focus on our own work, but it might be an interesting study for someone to see what has changed in the life of those who are incarcerated such that they increasingly turn t

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  Unfortunately, I think we don't have the same indicators to measure them, but I think the Canadian government is doing fairly well. When I make my reports, I focus, of course, and a lot of senior civil servants then get back to me, saying, “We did all these things well, and why

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chairman, I'll ask our general counsel to answer that. I think she may have seen more data on that than I have. Thanks.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I certainly can. First of all, the backlog is a very serious problem. It's our number one challenge now, and everyone throughout the Office of the Privacy Commissioner is turning their minds to overcoming this.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, and I'm not the only privacy commissioner in Canada to have this problem. Unfortunately, even if you put in the delay at a year, if you don't have anybody to look at this.... I've told you some of the challenges in the public sector. In the private sector, the challenges o

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, but as I indicated, the ways to make it disappear quickly are not there. If you look through the recommendations I made for both of our laws, I would like to have greater discretion as to which cases I have to take and which cases I don't have to take. There are two phenom

Information & Ethics committee  Okay, I can come back.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, in the three provinces the commissioner administers what is called an administrative tribunal. For those who aren't from a legal background, it's like an informal mini-court specialized in that particular issue. In some of these cases, for example in Quebec, you will have la