Information & Ethics committee  I'll start by explaining what the current law is. The Privacy Act gives Canadian citizens the right to access personal information about themselves held by the government. That right does not exist for foreign nationals, except when they proceed through Canadian agents—

Information & Ethics committee  To cut this short, the government expects that there will be a very significant volume of access requests by foreign nationals, some of them immigrants interested in their immigration status, and proportionally there will be an increase of complaints with the OPC. We think there

Information & Ethics committee  Not yet.

Information & Ethics committee  For the extension order, there has not been a refusal. The request is still being studied.

Information & Ethics committee  Overall, I think the issue is that we're going to inherit many new responsibilities, first under this order and then under new laws in the private sector or public sector. That's why we think we need to increase our resources significantly, probably to double them. When you look

Information & Ethics committee  At this point, we're in a situation where unless we're provided further funding, yes, we expect the backlogs to grow. But I'm an optimist, and with new laws and a new extension order, I certainly hope there will be some funding that will help ensure that we can deal with these co

Information & Ethics committee  I'll speak in some detail, but I would refer you to the key recommendations for a new private sector law that accompanied a letter I sent to this committee further to its study on data mobility. There are two or three pages of specific recommendations. I'll just point to the ones

Information & Ethics committee  The Tim Hortons application did indeed track their users' movements every few minutes of every day. I think that shows, among other things, that the current law—in part because it does not have penalties and in part because it does not define accountability as I've suggested—allo

Information & Ethics committee  Frankly, I have a lot of difficulty seeing how it could be legitimate and proportional for a company, other than a telephone service provider, to follow their customers every few minutes of every day.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry. I did not catch the question.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I heard your preamble. I did not catch the question.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, sure. Transparency and openness are well-recognized privacy principles, and it would be an improvement for the law to include them, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  We're at the analysis and conceptual stage, obviously, and we're not hiring anyone because there's no legislation that has been adopted, but again, I thought it would be important not to be caught off guard and to think internally how we would we organize and what kinds of profes

Information & Ethics committee  What would be my recommendations for enhanced consent?