Industry committee  Minister, the sites that we are speaking about right now—Facebook, etc.—are some of the major web giants. The Internet has billions of pages that government cannot possibly monitor, short of a massive Internet firewall like they have in China. In China, the government sees everyt

Industry committee  I'm not talking about the minister.

Industry committee  Minister, we can talk about what we're here for—

Industry committee  —I have children as well—but the specific question I asked you was: Outside the large Facebooks and Googles of the world, there are billions of other pages offering content. How do your guidelines apply to that? Give me a practical answer. You said you've been working on some of

Industry committee  Thank you.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Minister, in number nine of your guidelines, freedom from hate and violent extremism, the Prime Minister has obviously been talking a lot, referring to protecting Canadians from hate, violent extremism as well as disinformation. I believe no one here defen

Industry committee  I know, but what I'm saying, Minister, is that if you say these digital guidelines apply, then why would it be up to the Privacy Commissioner to decide whether or not StatsCan can go ahead? Are you not saying—

Industry committee  But what's the point of him continuing to look into the matter if it's not going to go ahead?

Industry committee  I know it's being examined, Minister. Again, you have said that Canadians should have control and they should have consent over their information.

Industry committee  Then why should StatsCan be able to go through with this pilot project?

Industry committee  They also do need to inform you as minister.

Industry committee  I would just hope, Minister, that StatsCan would be listening to this conversation and would not proceed. I think it's important that Canadians know that their information is theirs. I'll pass the rest of my time over to Mr. Lloyd.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Minister, you mentioned in these digital guidelines the importance of transparency and maintaining privacy. You also suggested that these new guidelines should apply to government entities like StatsCan. Can you please tell Canadians that their data, such a

Industry committee  Can you tell them exactly that their data, such as financial information and banking and credit information, has not been collected by the government without their awareness or their consent?

Industry committee  You said earlier that privacy includes control and consent.