Industry committee  I'd just like to say I think it definitely can apply, because we have it in here, but you may want to have a look at, for example, New Zealand's law, which refers to the term of consent that can reasonably be inferred--so whether we're talking about inferred or complied...the con

Industry committee  I would like to echo the comments of Mr. Hill on behalf of all of the members, entities and businesses that serve on our association's ethics and privacy committee. Consider, for example, Reader's Digest which has been publishing in Canada for at least 70 years. Our company want

Information & Ethics committee  Just to add to that, if you read section 18 with respect to the audit...[Technical difficulty--Editor]...he or she still has to have reasonable grounds. It's not wide open.

Information & Ethics committee  No, they're not exactly the same. Of course, they're sufficiently harmonized. The provincial laws out west have gone a slight step further, for example, in dealing with, if memory serves, what happens to personal information when there's a sale of a business. That's a useful ref

Information & Ethics committee  I absolutely echo that. That's its strength, not its weakness. As we're sitting here today, I can tell you that our beautiful piece of law will probably be the model adopted by Singapore. As we speak, it's being looked at by the South African Law Reform Commission, and it's bei