Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely. There are many countries, over 60, that are participating in this forum of the international conference, and certainly there are many countries in Europe, and Australia, New Zealand, the United States through the Federal Trade Commission, that are good partners in thi

Information & Ethics committee  We have certainly participated in this study, and we welcome these recommendations. I think I will ask Madame Kosseim to answer your question, if you don't mind.

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly, one type of issue is to determine with whom you're sharing information when you use social media. Even if someone wants to restrict the group of people with whom data would be shared, it is easier said than done to actually ensure that this is the case. This leads me t

Information & Ethics committee  If the standard of proof I spoke about—that is, if the reasonable grounds to suspect remain—that would certainly lead to constitutional challenges. There would also be a certain ambiguity or uncertainty for awhile, until the courts make a ruling in that respect. I think that the

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. We're well in place in our new offices, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for your question. As I explained before a Senate committee recently, the Supreme Court ruling in Spencer is a very important step forward in privacy law. Before the ruling, it was difficult to know whether the information that Canadians were putting on the Internet co

Information & Ethics committee  In my opinion, Bill C-44 has an impact on privacy, in that it directly gives CSIS an extraterritorial mandate. That implies that information is being shared between the secret services and certain foreign agencies. That sharing of information is an issue that affects privacy very

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. I thank you for the opportunity to address our submissions under the supplementary estimates and any questions you may have. Joining me today is Daniel Nadeau, our chief financial officer, and Patricia Kosseim, our senior-ge

Finance committee  We have a bill in front of us that provides for wide-ranging, regulation-making authority. The models that I think would be good models from a privacy perspective would be regulations that would authorize sharing of information between levels of government for employment-related

Finance committee  As I've said, what we've seen is information from ESDC based on information it has provided us. We know that there is sharing between federal departments, and we have not been provided with information as to all the uses for which that sharing goes on. That is what we would like

Finance committee  What I'm saying, though, is that I would put the missing person himself or herself in the same position as the relative. There is a provision already that recognizes that the DNA of a relative cannot be used, cannot be matched against criminal indices, presumably on the basis tha

Finance committee  To be clear, my concern is not with respect to the exchange in a foreign context. My concern is with mixing the provision of certain information for humanitarian purposes with using information for law enforcement purposes, whether that is done domestically in Canada or whether i

Finance committee  The concern I'm raising is not related to the use of the SIN for the unemployment program but with the open-ended nature of the authority to make regulations, to share information with provincial governments for cooperation between the federal government and the provinces. That c

Finance committee  If the use is for the employment program in question, I would not have a problem, but again, the regulations could speak to any number of purposes not necessarily employment-related.

Finance committee  We provide advice to departments based on the information provided by the departments to us on the scope of the changes in question.