Public Safety committee  No, I mean the conditions precedent, which must be met in order for a state authority to be able to require the sample to be given, regardless of the technique for obtaining it.

Public Safety committee  Speaking practically, a judgment from the United States, which is a bit dated, states that there should be a legal framework of rules for things like obtaining approval for the conditions precedent. This ties in with what Ms. Ouimet said when she referred to mandatory testing in

Public Safety committee  Are you talking about the assessment of factors?

Public Safety committee  If the idea is to require police forces to conduct these evaluations, the answer is no. As far as the federal police or federal organizations—including the RCMP—are concerned, they must do these evaluations. That's at the federal level only. At the provincial or municipal level,

Public Safety committee  In the case of random checks, a procedure that could be helpful to mitigate the risks to privacy would be to require police to conduct a privacy impact assessment. Before using random checks, I encourage you to explore the possibility of establishing parameters so that not only

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members, thank you for the invitation to appear before you today to discuss Bill C-226. As you mentioned, Mr. Chair, I am accompanied by Patricia Kosseim, senior general counsel of my office. I would like to be clear from the outset that I fully understan

Information & Ethics committee  Two hundred now.

Information & Ethics committee  You're rightly focusing on internal services. I can tell you that I have also focused quite a bit of questioning on internal services myself. I would say two or three things. One, remember we're a small organization. In terms of IMIT, which is a big part of the internal services

Information & Ethics committee  The notice that we currently receive voluntarily, which will be mandatory once Bill S-4 comes into force, comes into our PIPEDA investigation group. There is one person who receives these notices. In the notice from the organization, the company describes certain facts and tries

Information & Ethics committee  Roughly, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  It's strategic and operational advice on how to mitigate and try to reduce this type of occurrence. If we saw what looked to us to be criminal activity, we would report it to the police but we would not investigate ourselves.

Information & Ethics committee  It will depend a lot on our consultations with the organizations in question. One thing we've launched in the past year is the consultation process with small and medium-sized businesses. We've approached a number of these sectors to start a conversation. We have an idea in terms

Information & Ethics committee  I'll start, and I'll ask Daniel Nadeau to complete the answer. We have arrangements with different agents of Parliament on different issues. With IT, we have certain arrangements with certain colleagues, and on other things we have other arrangements with other colleagues. We ha

Information & Ethics committee  We have, I think, quite a rigorous process leading to the conclusion of our annual budgets. I am personally involved in these various steps. It starts with defining the corporate priorities of the organization. There's a discussion among managers several months before the beginn

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.