Information & Ethics committee  Ideally, as I mentioned to your colleague, the answer is yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Boulerice, I think that pertains to the details of the investigation. Even if I knew the answer to that—which I don't because I'm not aware of the details of the investigation—I couldn't reveal that information at this time. That investigation is a priority because of the ram

Information & Ethics committee  I'll start with the good news. There are relatively few drones. There aren't many of them in Canada, and the Department of Transport has to issue those licences, so their operation is fairly well contained. However, the assistant commissioner, who oversaw that file, may be more u

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for that question, honourable member. I don't know if it's so much that I am confident in the number of 181 FTEs, but I understand that it is what I've been given to work with and that I have to be realistic about the demands I may make on the government at this partic

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, I am going to ask the assistant commissioner to answer.

Information & Ethics committee  That's a tough question, but I won't take too long to think about it before answering. It is clear that Canadians' privacy is more at risk despite all the efforts that my team and others have made. The fact that Canadians' privacy is more at risk is due to technological advanceme

Information & Ethics committee  Well, we did some very detailed examinations of our budget, and $700,000 of that came from something called the “fiscal framework”, which I gather is money that is set aside by Treasury Board in the main budget but that has not yet been granted to the office. We renounced that, w

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question, Ms. Borg. It's a little ironic, because if you look at the annual reports we've produced since I've been in office, you see that very few legal actions end up being heard on the merits. We go to the Federal Court to try to bring the private sector to

Information & Ethics committee  If I may, Ms. Borg, I would ask the assistant commissioner to answer that, considering how involved she is in the international network of privacy commissioners, which is working towards the very thing you mentioned.

Information & Ethics committee  Genetic privacy, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Of what we're doing in each of them?

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Thank you, honourable member. These four priorities are just an in-house way—the suggestion came from the personnel—to organize our work because we're constantly bombarded with so much. As you say, there are new technologies and new issues. So what do we decide to prioritize

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I'm planning to do that within the next month, to go over at a very high level my observations and suggestions for modernizing the act going forward.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it's a one-time expense that's paid back over 15 years, but on how it's captured, I'll leave that to our chief of accounts.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, the four policy priorities for some years have been identity integrity, new information technology, national security, and genetic privacy.