Information & Ethics committee  Every time you log into the network we have an acceptable use policy. Every time you reboot your computer you access via a virtual private network—a VPN—the acceptable use policy. You accept it. It details what you can and cannot do. Again, these are not Department of Fisheries a

Information & Ethics committee  Again, for administrative investigations...and we're not talking about doing something without the knowledge of the employees. Within an administrative investigation that comes through the chief security officer, we have the terms of reference and then the actual employee is full

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much for your question. We do not have surveillance equipment. I think you asked about surveillance gear. We do not have surveillance equipment. The actual software that we have is used as part of our administrative investigations, and it's used with the full unde

Information & Ethics committee  I believe the software in question is one of our forensic tools. Again, like all software, it goes through many different iterations of the tool. I think that tool has been sold for many years, potentially more than 10 or 15 years. I believe it started to be used when it wasn't p

Information & Ethics committee  Again, a PIA, as I understand it, is part of the overall process or program that's being evaluated. When we're looking at it, again from my perspective, it is administrative investigations, so that process or that program has been in place for many decades. The tool that we're ta

Information & Ethics committee  Again, the PIA is not software-specific. It is for the program. The tool is one part of the program.

Information & Ethics committee  I, personally, was not a part of those communications. I know within our department the ATIP office was in communication, I believe, both with the Privacy Commissioner and with Treasury Board. That is the mechanism by which the communication happens within our department, the cen

Information & Ethics committee  Again, from my perspective, all those communications would happen between our ATIP office, the Treasury Board and the Privacy Commissioner. Those communications have happened, I believe, but I'm not personally privy to the specific communications.

Fisheries committee  Can I ask you to repeat the question? I am not sure I quite heard.

Fisheries committee  Really, just to reiterate that, I think the last slide in the presentation showed the number of radio towers and radar towers. Before and after consolidation modernization, there is no change in the coverage, whether it is radio or radar. From a service perspective, this is a dif

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much. I think my colleagues have spoken about the different outages and sometimes the different reasons behind the failures. The outage that you are referring to was a human error. There was an interruption in a signal. It had nothing to do with the new technology

Fisheries committee  It was approximately one year ago when we did the first consolidation in the southern centres. Actually, it's modernization, then consolidation. We started in Halifax with modernizing MCTS Halifax, and then it was the consolidation of MCTS Saint John into MCTS Halifax.

Fisheries committee  I think what Mr. Spurrell was making reference to is that when the contractor first delivered the equipment, or the first version of the software, we installed it in one of our labs in Halifax-Dartmouth. We determined that there was an echo problem. This was found in our lab. W

Fisheries committee  I think, as Mr. Lick indicated, the equipment that we had was really near its end of life, so it's something that we were going to have to replace. It was a standard life-cycle management replacement. That's why, in the modernization, we had to replace all of the communication an

Fisheries committee  Thank you. The new technology, as Mr. Lick has indicated, really has brought us into the modern world. From a network perspective, we're on some legacy telecommunication links, as has been highlighted. However, with this technology, in the future we can actually go on to modern