Information & Ethics committee  As the commissioner says, obviously analysts have spent a lot of time looking at that. The commissioner was talking about how it's looming large. In particular, she was referring earlier on to privacy impact assessments. The government has committed, as it has to do by Treasury B

Information & Ethics committee  The way it works is that the department that is developing a measure has to develop a privacy impact assessment. They would have to do that; that is the workload for them. They submit the privacy impact assessment for our review and we make recommendations on integrating privacy

Information & Ethics committee  As you pointed out, that audit led to the destruction of all data that did not need to be kept. I would say that speaks quite nicely to the effectiveness of our audits and the receptiveness of federal agencies, to be sure. That being said, it is necessary to keep up that oversigh

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely, and that's one of the reasons why we need to pay particular attention to the work being done on the border security perimeter. As for what we do in relation to the possibility of inaccuracy, first of all, our audits are done on a risk basis. So we will look at either

Information & Ethics committee  There are a number of things that need mentioning. First, we have received several complaints. Therefore, we have several ongoing investigations. Second, following the first complaint, we noted some systemic deficiencies or an appearance, at first glance, of such deficiencies in

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly. Public-private partnerships have an impact on privacy. Continuity must be established in the protection of privacy, and that continuity must be ensured through a strong and effective legislative framework. In CATSA's case, that contract ensured that the agency's obligat

Information & Ethics committee  Indeed we agree with you that privacy cannot stand in the way of public safety and cannot be used to shield illegal activities. That is our starting point. We have consulted widely, I would say, with chiefs of police, the RCMP, and CSIS, as well as with civil society, to truly ma

Information & Ethics committee  So the bill must be looked at through that lens, to precisely ensure that it only targets those who must be targeted and therefore avoid using privacy as a shield for illegal activities.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Indeed, the relationship we have with CATSA is excellent. In this audit, when we did put to them that finding, they accepted to change the practice, recognizing that indeed they did not need that information, that it was beyond their mandate to collect it.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  We have absolutely no information as to how much it would inhibit disclosure or not. We really are not privy to any such study or analysis on that. We have no statistics on that at all.

Public Accounts committee  Then I repeat what I said earlier on, that clearly that was Parliament's concern and that is why they have put the threshold of confidentiality so high.

Public Accounts committee  Thank You.

Public Accounts committee  Well, there is a different threshold: “authorized” by law gives more latitude; “required” by law shows that there is absolutely no discretion to disclose.

Public Accounts committee  I'm actually not sufficiently familiar with the disclosure act to be able to tell you what consequences there could be. I don't know if my colleague is familiar with it. We administer the Privacy Act and, as you know, the private sector privacy act as well, so I can really only