Information & Ethics committee  Obviously, our interest is Internet service providers because that's an area where children are being exploited by the Internet. Our recommendation is--and I only speak to the area of the Internet because that's the issue we're dealing with, children being exploited--that the leg

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not saying there aren't other areas. I'm only speaking from our experience, so our comments are limited to the Internet service providers.

Information & Ethics committee  What I was referring to there is in our brief, and again I apologize for not getting it in sooner. There was a case in Toronto where the police were looking to get information. I think it was a homicide investigation. The issue the ISP raised was that the cost of cooperating with

Information & Ethics committee  Ideally we would like to see ISPs take a more active role in ensuring that their services are not being used to facilitate the exploitation of children. That doesn't mean they have to police the Internet; that's unreasonable. But certainly when they become aware of how their serv

Information & Ethics committee  I'm saying they have the discretion to cooperate with law enforcement. When law enforcement makes a request to get the name of a potential suspect--subscriber information, name and address--they have a discretion to cooperate with law enforcement. I think according to the legisl

Information & Ethics committee  It hasn't, to my knowledge.

Information & Ethics committee  It's my understanding that most of the bigger ISPs generally cooperate with law enforcement. According to the Privacy Commissioner, in a letter we received from her, ISPs look at it on a case-by-case basis, so I guess it depends on the circumstances and what the issues are. I'll

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, committee, for allowing us to come today to talk about issues related to your review of PIPEDA. I don't think we'll be very long in our opening remarks. Our issues are pretty specific. We just really want to raise those for you, and we'll be happy to try to