Information & Ethics committee  I think the point is valid. This needs to be written up in plain English rather than in legalese. In addition, it needs to be distributed as almost a code of business for businesses that are part of the ICT community. That information could be disseminated through ITAC and othe

Information & Ethics committee  I think the tools that are there are pretty reasonable. If I was a credible business and the Privacy Commissioner went out to the market and said that I did not comply—and I think we as an association were on paper committing during a peer period discussion that we wanted disclos

Information & Ethics committee  On this specific topic, I believe, from a regulatory point of view, what we have is probably sufficient. The tools are needed for the Privacy Commissioner at this point to go out and establish the framework with the industry, the academics, and the community at large, as to how i

Information & Ethics committee  There was a tradition, probably about three years ago, when a lot of the software development work went to India, Malaysia, and Indonesia, for labour reasons and other reasons. Nowadays, as the investors start looking at solving some of the problems, they often use what is known

Information & Ethics committee  There is a line to be drawn as to what personal information should not be compromised. The privacy framework we currently have has the principle that certain data should be deleted if it is no longer needed or intended to be used. That was passed by the Privacy Commissioner and m

Information & Ethics committee  When we talk to our members today, their general commentary is that they're very engaged with the Privacy Commissioner in developing all of the framework. There is no need to put a predetermined fine relative to anything. The courts can do that, if there is something breached, so

Information & Ethics committee  I have not seen any data to indicate that at this stage.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for your question. I know you attended the WCIT in Montreal. As you heard from the rest of the world, we live in an open world, so you cannot control everything and contain it in a lockdown mode. We need to make sure we have the ability to manage the risks that are out

Information & Ethics committee  Digital deliveries need to start at school. We are working with several organizations that are building programs today at a high school level and even at the polytechnic and university level to deal with the digital literacy that young people get into. It is no different from any

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, and my thanks to all members. I appreciate the opportunity to present at this committee. My name is Karna Gupta. I'm the president and CEO of ITAC, which is the Information Technology Association of Canada. We represent 350 or more companies across the

Industry committee  I think there are several things, and we have recently submitted several of them as part of the digital economy strategy to Industry Canada and to the ministry of finance. To foster the SMEs, you need to look at it from three vectors: one is the access to market, another is acces

Industry committee  Synchronizing with the U.S., not in terms of exact copying but from a timeframe point of view, is a good aspirational goal to have. It cuts our timing by half. Currently, we are sitting between five and seven years, compared with their two to three years. I think it would be a g

Industry committee  I think there are several. One of them could be this: a lot of our young companies talk about generating revenues on patents and royalties, similar to some of the other regimes, like the U.K.’s. Maybe that should be incented, so you force the right commercialization of the patent

Industry committee  I think longer is one element of it. It's the other costs that go with it that are important. It's not only the filing process and going through the searches, but also the length of the patent. The big piece that also ties in with this is the enforceability. If you are going to h

Industry committee  It does, but it is one of many things. Only changing one variable may not be sufficient or attractive for a lot of companies. When you look at companies that are filing patents in Canada, they have Canadian indigenous companies that are filing patents here, and you also have the