Information & Ethics committee  Will I also get to comment on that?

Information & Ethics committee  I think that is one of the issues on which one might have a principled view and the technical implementation of it would undermine any idealism that one might have, so I'll be a bit deferential in my response. I am generally of the view that all default settings should default t

Information & Ethics committee  First of all, one of the points that hasn't been mentioned today, but I think has come up in previous testimony, is that even if we put aside the grandiose right to be forgotten in the European sense, PIPEDA and privacy legislation across Canada, the principles that we've referre

Information & Ethics committee  Sure, and I'll try to keep my remarks on this brief. In terms of your question about intention as being too high a standard, I tend to agree with that. If we hold the standard of proof so high—and those kinds of things are difficult to make out—if we take it almost to a level o

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Bratina, if I understood your question correctly, you were asking to speak to the difference on the enforcement issue—

Information & Ethics committee  —on the powers issue, so I'll speak briefly to that.

Information & Ethics committee  I think I'll speak also to the consent issue as raised. Mr. Young notes, I think quite correctly, that the FTC has done a phenomenal job, despite having to be very sector-specific, not having omnibus legislation in the way that we do. One of the main reasons the FTC has done suc

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, honourable members, thank you and good afternoon. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today as part of your PIPEDA review, a statute in desperate need of legal reform. My name is Ian Kerr. I'm a professor at the University of Ottawa, where I hold a uniqu

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I would only be speculating, but it would be an interesting speculation to ask the question, how might an office, not necessarily that commissioner but an office, with order-making power have dealt with the situation where Maclean's magazine came and dumped all of the commis

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, all the time.

Information & Ethics committee  I've never denied there's any responsibility with respect to agreeing or assenting to terms in a contract. That's never been my position. Interestingly, the courts in Canada took your position on this in another case we haven't talked about yet, a case called Kanitz v. Rogers Cab

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

Information & Ethics committee  Not particularly. The media has done a fairly good job of speaking about some of the hardships that occurred in that office with the previous commissioner. I don't need to add anything.

Information & Ethics committee  I agree with absolutely everything that's been said so far, and some of my recommendations about tightening up the consent provisions are made because at the end of the day small businesses are going to have to have a clearer sense of how to do that. That can also be helped, to s

Information & Ethics committee  I would suggest that question provokes what I think is the fundamental misunderstanding by the general public about data protection...and falls short of understanding its importance, the whole reason we're doing this. The former commissioner--I'm talking about Bruce Phillips--de