Information & Ethics committee  There was virtually no litigation activity 17 years ago in relation to privacy. In my practice, and I'm sure in that of the other witnesses who were around at that point, the focus was on compliance. You have a new statute coming in with a new set of rules. How do we write a priv

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not saying there may not be room for tweaks here and there, or improvements such as those that have been made, but largely the model we have has worked quite well.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I'd echo those sentiments. I don't think there's a problem, in my experience, that it would be solving. That's similar to the CBA's submission. If you were to go that route, of course, there would be a lot of things to consider in terms of how the office currently operates v

Information & Ethics committee  If I could add one final comment, PIPEDA has built into it, of course, the reasonable purposes concept in subsection 5(3). Irrespective of consent and other provisions, you can do only those things that a reasonable person would consider to be appropriate. That's quite a generic

Information & Ethics committee  Of course. No problem.

Information & Ethics committee  I think there are two questions there. First, is it a topic to be addressed in the legislation? Second, what are the courts doing? Maybe I'll address the legislative piece first. Frankly, I haven't thought about it in the same terms that Ms. Backman has in respect of a potentia

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much and good afternoon. I very much appreciate the opportunity to share with the committee some of my personal thoughts about important issues of privacy that affect Canadians. As mentioned, I'm a partner with the law firm Fasken Martineau. I've been working in th