Information & Ethics committee  First on the question of security and privacy, I'll just say that ultimately I think it's possible to have both, and that position informs quite a few comments that I have made, whether it's about Bill C-13 or Bill C-44. I think security is obviously very important, and legislato

Information & Ethics committee  We asked to appear, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Ultimately my concern with respect to Bill C-13 is that although the Supreme Court decision in Spencer clarified many things, it could not and did not clarify every issue raised by this bill. My concern is that the Canadian population will be in the dark as to the level of protec

Information & Ethics committee  My statutory duties in this regard would be in part on the question of sharing by organization subject to PIPEDA and whether their sharing conforms to the Spencer decision. There could be complaints along those lines. It would be premature to prejudge whether we'll be able to as

Information & Ethics committee  It is actually at our request that this is being done.

Information & Ethics committee  The reporting centre is led by the CRTC and we were asked by the CRTC to contribute to it. We've offered this money to hire an analyst and we are getting the fruits of the work of that analyst in trends or potential investigations into spamming. So I think we're getting benefit f

Information & Ethics committee  We are at the analysis stage. We haven't yet made any concrete progress with the guidelines.

Information & Ethics committee  The issue is complex. Perhaps Ms. Kosseim can provide more detail.

Information & Ethics committee  At this point, as I have said, we have increased our productivity with respect to complaints in relation to PIPEDA. Our productivity is up and the response time is down and the backlog has been reduced. I think we're going in the right direction. We have some challenges with resp

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. The OPC under Madame Stoddart had four such priorities, and they served the organization very well during her tenure. With my arrival, I think it's timely to modernize these priorities, and it was foreseen that this would be done even before I arrived. I intend to lo

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. We have quite a few activities on that front. For instance, with respect to youth, who are obviously big consumers of new technologies, we have products and we send material to schools and educators, who can use these to inform young people about privacy concerns. We have ha

Information & Ethics committee  Most of the reduction was related to the moving costs last year and will not come back, except in the form of repayment of the loan, which is about $200,000 a year for 15 years. However, approximately $4 million that was spent last year will not be spent again. The difference be

Information & Ethics committee  For the moment we can. In fact, we need to go through this exercise again and again because the demand, the number of complaints, the number of bills and so on is constantly changing. Currently, I think I have enough money to manage, but we need to go through this exercise contin

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you.