Information & Ethics committee  You raise a question that was explored by this very committee in looking at the Privacy Act. One of the presenters was Professor Colin Bennett from the University of Victoria, who is Canada's leading expert on privacy in the context of political parties and elections. I know that

Information & Ethics committee  I have nothing to add to Chantal's comments.

Information & Ethics committee  Generally speaking, when it comes to record retention, privacy laws provide that it's not appropriate to retain information because somewhere down the road you may come up with another purpose for the information. You collect information for a specified purpose. This is fundament

Information & Ethics committee  All I know is that the Privacy Commissioner of Canada had hired an organization to do the work. I had liaised with the assistant commissioner Denham in developing it, we rolled it out in Saskatchewan, there were a number of meetings with business organizations and small and mediu

Information & Ethics committee  I think it's difficult, for all of the reasons that have been discussed already. You see the Privacy Commissioner of Canada attempting to address the mischief, recognizing a problem and attempting to deal with it. We've seen the Federal Court attempting to address this through th

Information & Ethics committee  I might just add that when I was in Saskatchewan, overseeing health trustees and their management of personal health information, it was surprising how often you would find inactive health files in a granary, left behind in an abandoned office. You had providers retiring and so o

Information & Ethics committee  First, for clarity it was in the province of Saskatchewan that we were undertaking this. Saskatchewan does not have a PIPA and is subject fully to the federal PIPEDA. I first have to stress that in this pilot project, which was launched by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and

Information & Ethics committee  Because we weren't dealing so much with consumers—our dealings were with organizations—we didn't have a lot of organizations coming forward and—

Information & Ethics committee  Well, that's right.

Information & Ethics committee  They were small businesses. What we found, generally speaking—though there were some exceptions, as you would expect—that there was an incredibly low level of awareness of PIPEDA and what was required of an organization to ensure that it was collecting the least amount of informa

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members. My comments will be focused specifically on the four issues identified by the Privacy Commissioner in his December 2, 2016, letter to this committee. The overriding concern I'll commence with is ensuring that PIPEDA works better when it