Human Resources committee  I had the opportunity to address the matter before House and Senate committees, but my suggestions were not followed. That's how I would answer that.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for your question. As I recall, the comments that I, or Ms. Stoddart, made at the time in relation to the previous incarnation of the bill had to do with its substance and legislative provisions, as opposed to the consultation process beforehand or lack thereof. My pre

Human Resources committee  My role is to advise parliamentarians on the consequences that legislative measures can have on privacy. I do not have an opinion on the activities of labour organizations, specifically, but, like my predecessor, I have maintained all along that the provisions contained in Bill C

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair and committee members, thank you for inviting me to speak with you regarding Bill C-4. In May 2015, I appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs to comment on some of the legislative enactments of Bill C-377, which the bill before

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  The fact of the matter is that the rule is unclear, and that leads to uncertainty as to whether the information should be disclosed or not. I think this is undesirable. Yes, perhaps it could lead to under-reporting in the sense that if the threshold did not exist, all financial

Information & Ethics committee  I would distinguish between two stages in this information sharing. Normally, in terms of privacy, the information that a government institution receives should be directly from the individual concerned. Here, there is an intermediary, which is the financial institution, but th

Information & Ethics committee  It's a matter of discretion. The agency is not required to do anything other than what it did, meaning, to inform the population in general through its website and to respond to access requests under the Privacy Act. The agency meets the minimal requirements of the act. Would it

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have anything more to say.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm afraid that goes beyond the scope of my jurisdiction. Commercial information is not information about individuals. The jurisdiction I have is to look at the personal information of individuals in Canada.

Information & Ethics committee  Obviously, there should be rules to ensure the safety of the information, whether it's commercial or personal information.

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's a tax policy question at the end of the day. Certainly from a privacy perspective, the fact that information is shared with the U.S. is an exception to the rule, but the exception to the rule is justified by the desirability of avoiding tax evasion. In terms of pri

Information & Ethics committee  We haven't yet asked that question, specifically, but the developments we've seen in the situation overall have led us to do so now. We will receive information from the CRA, and, once again, if the answer is satisfactory, we will say so. If, however, the answer isn't satisfactor

Information & Ethics committee  It would be a few weeks, or months at the most.

Information & Ethics committee  From a privacy perspective, there's no question that clarity would be be extremely desirable here. If I can speculate on how we got where we are, I would go back to the fact that the purpose of the agreement is to avoid tax evasion, and it may be that tax evasion will occur for a