Industry committee  Professor, the only thing I'll say is this: I think the control over the data is a more important question than ownership of the data. I'm not saying that the ownership is irrelevant, but I think for the purposes of the topic at hand, the issue is really about control and not abo

Industry committee  I think I'd better undertake to have CCLA review it and get back to you with a proper answer, rather than providing a bunch of qualifications in your two minutes.

Industry committee  I think first we need to have a national consensus and we need some national laws. We need to update the data laws. I'm sure you don't disagree with that, but I'm going to put an emphasis on that. The international treaties are out of my jurisdiction.

Industry committee  I'm all for truth, if that's what you're asking. Our concern is primarily with censorship.

Industry committee  I would need to know more about it. We're the CCLA, so we have the luxury of being able to be hardline on free speech, which you don't have pragmatically. I think I'd better leave it at that.

Industry committee  Yes, I do.

Industry committee  I am not sure. The reason I'm not able to answer yes or no is that it depends on what's done with that information. If somebody can access the information that I supposedly own, that doesn't say much for my ownership rights. The issue is more about presumptions. The presumption

Industry committee  I'll just repeat what I said before about accountability. There should be some clarity and transparency with respect to what the government is doing when it's considering a particular order, what the timeline is for an executive order and what the executive is doing at any given

Industry committee  I'd need to know more specifics about it, but I'd say it has to be authorized by legislation. If it's not authorized by legislation, it would be without jurisdiction.

Industry committee  Yes. I think there's a difference between a final assessment on the one hand and getting some feedback from a privacy commissioner on the other hand. I know the federal Privacy Commissioner would welcome an opportunity to appear before this committee or appear before anybody who

Industry committee  There's no question that there's an absence of accountability. For example, I'm concerned that when there are announcements made by government ministers—we'll just talk about the federal government—when announcements or daily updates are provided, how much of that has legal aut

Industry committee  We would argue against any measure by any government or any legislature seeking to in any way chill, let alone censor, people in terms of their freedom of expression.

Industry committee  Well, who has a monopoly over the truth? Are we willing to say that the government or a legislature has a monopoly over the truth? No, of course not. If we can agree that governments don't get to decide what's true or not true, then they can't get the power to decide what infor

Industry committee  Yes. I think I'm going to let Professor Scassa go first since I took all the last few questions.

Industry committee  Is my data my property? I would say yes, that's my property, but I have a qualification. I know you wanted a yes or no, but you get to ask the questions and I get to give the answer.