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Industry committee I have nothing further.
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Douglas Brown
Industry committee In the section that I commented on, clause 10, proposed paragraph (d.3), one of the protections in the reporting is that it's reported to a government institution, and as I said in my comments, the institution itself as it becomes defined is presumably going to have limitations o
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Douglas Brown
Industry committee When you see cases of financial abuse, quite often the first step is that the individual who is doing the financial abuse is gaining the trust of the person we're trying to protect. The reason that this clause is important is that quite often you will have a situation—say it's a
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Douglas Brown
Industry committee I can take that even a step further. Prior to my appointment as public guardian and trustee, I was director of enforcement for the Manitoba Securities Commission for about 12 years. The trends you have seen over the last two generations are people becoming more involved in thei
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Douglas Brown
Industry committee People are vulnerable by not passing it. We have organizations, as defined in that legislation, that don't feel they have the legal ability to report situations where they themselves are identifying possibilities of abuse. In terms of public protection, I'm not sure why we woul
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Douglas Brown
Industry committee Thank you for the opportunity to comment on Bill S-4, the digital privacy act. I'm Douglas Brown, the public guardian and trustee of the Province of Manitoba. My comments today will be limited to subclause 6(10) of the bill, which would amend the Personal Information Protection
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Douglas Brown