Information & Ethics committee  I'm not going to repeat the same comments. Dr. Parsons really has the best ideas on the actual changes that are required. However, I also agree that we need to do something far broader. I would like to recommend that we spend more time considering how these things are done in ot

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, consent is very difficult to obtain. Dr. Murakami Wood already pointed this out in his talk, and that seems to me to be exactly right, that the notion that we could somehow gain consent.... The notion of consent is really important. It's really significant, and there are par

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely not. There needs to be much broader public education, as it were, so that we understand what we're doing when we supposedly give consent and when we actually give consent. Yes, there is far more to be done here.

Information & Ethics committee  As I said, I'm not a technical expert, but it does seem to me, from the evidence, that such a notion is very hard to actually obtain in practice. There are ways of taking care, and taking more care with data analysis especially. And don't forget that I mentioned each of the stage

Information & Ethics committee  The process that was described by Public Health Canada.... I'm not sure that I grasped the question, really.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think you can make a simple “one or the other” here. There are aspects of transparency, and there are aspects of opacity. Really, I think that question distracts us from the real issues in front of us.

Information & Ethics committee  I agree with Dr. Murakami Wood's view.

Information & Ethics committee  As I said, the problem is that “surveillance” is heard in many different ways. You have the common public notion of surveillance as having to do with the ways in which police, say, would seek out or keep watch over some suspect, or, equally, intelligence services might do the sam

Information & Ethics committee  The large scale.... Well, as all three of today's witnesses pointed out, the intentions of public health surveillance are ones that I think we would all agree with, in that they are trying very hard to track what is happening within the pandemic to see where the virus is spreadin

Information & Ethics committee  I'm David Lyon, professor emeritus at Queen's University and former director of the Surveillance Studies Centre. I had a new book published recently, Pandemic Surveillance. That book acknowledges the importance and the risk of public health surveillance. I am a historian and a s