Information & Ethics committee  We've actually funded a research project by Queen's University. I've read the draft report. It's being finalized. It will be released, I understand, before the end of March. So if you want, we would be happy to send you a copy. Obviously it's for dissemination.

Information & Ethics committee  They said that the equipment would be on a lease service contract. They would not retain any of the equipment, and therefore they did not feel that this was an issue, that they would not keep the equipment.

Information & Ethics committee  They said that they will not keep it. They said that it would be a lease contract, a service contract, and that therefore past the need--the actual Olympics--they would not have that equipment any more.

Information & Ethics committee  I can tell you the sense that they gave us is that there would not be a legacy of increased security beyond the need occasioned by the Olympics.

Information & Ethics committee  On the question of how they were going to manage the information, they said they would ensure that current Canadian laws would be fully, rigorously respected. Their general counsel was there and said that he assumes that responsibility. In relation to surveillance itself, it wi

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know. I have not seen their budget.

Information & Ethics committee  I have no idea.

Information & Ethics committee  Of course. We have a series of concerns, but they are not concrete in the sense that we have observed some practices that are of concrete preoccupation. However, the question arises obviously from having an intensification of security, which leads to an intensification of the du

Information & Ethics committee  We're doing a lot of things. First, we're conducting assessments of the impact certain programs have on privacy, in cooperation with the federal institutions. When they introduce a program that can leave room for an invasion of privacy, they conduct an assessment of it. For exam

Information & Ethics committee  Indeed, I've been asked to coordinate the four priority projects, each of which is directed by one person. Simply to give you some background, I'll say that these projects concern respectively technology, developments in genetics, developments in national security policy and iden