Industry committee  Mr. Chair, may I come in? Actually, I don't disagree with you. I'm not arguing for a Canadian standard per se. I'm saying that standards can be used. It may be that we adopt international standards or, in fact, that Canada can lead on standard setting in certain areas as well.

Industry committee  This follows very nicely from your previous question. They have to be considered. You do need that multi-agency structure to allow input, so that perhaps the Competition Bureau wants to come in and say, “Guess what? The takeover of those assets may create concentration issues in

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. One mechanism that we focused on is standard setting. Standard setting can be quite nimble. It can be tailored, obviously, to the technology, and it can embed the values with which we want the technology to be used. We can then embed mechanisms inside

Industry committee  I would say that I'm not necessarily an expert in this particular area, but what I would say is that, clearly, one would want transparency over how decisions are being made. I think that, no matter what mechanism is used to approve a decision, one would want to know how that deci

Industry committee  Maybe I'll take the first part. Once the data has been integrated into the technology, it's done. If there are benefits that come, the benefits are derived; if there are harms, they're already there. The fine you're referring to is the one I had mentioned related to the Priva

Industry committee  Generally, what we do is rely on other countries to follow their legislation. For example, in a trade agreement, you would say to the other country that you need to have adequate privacy protection over personal data, and then you would rely on that country to enforce those rules

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. Exactly. Things have changed tremendously. I know I talked a lot about data, but the ability to harness big data has truly changed everything. Data, as I mentioned, is now a geopolitical tool. You can feed it into various types of AI, if I can use tha

Industry committee  Chair and honourable members of the committee, thank you very much for the opportunity to present here today. Please allow me to make three comments related to Bill C-34. First, intangible assets, particularly data, have changed the nature of economic growth and created new val

International Trade committee  The first step is really to fix the Appellate Body. Nothing is going to happen until that's fixed. There are ways to fix it. I think a speedier resolution and more certainty are going to make things better for everyone. On the appeal process beyond the Appellate Body or, I suppo

International Trade committee  That's a great question. Going back to the U.S. and the optimism around the new administration, of course, they have also reinforced their buy American provisions. All countries want to have the right to do that, but you want to be able to do it on a non-discriminatory basis. The

International Trade committee  Obviously, it's an incredibly topical question. The Institute for New Economic Thinking released a report yesterday on this very topic. The president of CIGI, Rohinton Medhora, is part of the commission that was behind that report. I'd refer you to it. There are four points in it

International Trade committee  I'm sorry. I can't speak on behalf of the business community, but I can speak on behalf of a think tank. We have done consultations at CIGI for Global Affairs. It's very encouraging to see the change in administration and the approach to more multilateral efforts. I don't think t

International Trade committee  I agree with my fellow witnesses. What we want to do is essentially work with countries with which we share similar views and values, and that really is a plurilateral approach. We know that a multilateral or plurilateral approach is an effective way to influence global discussio

International Trade committee  I'll leave the trade barriers to my colleagues, but I think a big issue going forward is intellectual property and the division of rent.

International Trade committee  Good afternoon and thank you, Madam Chair and honourable members, for the opportunity to present the views of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, or CIGI, on World Trade Organization reform. As you've heard, the WTO faces many challenges. Indeed, it is experienci