Information & Ethics committee  As we know—and those of you who are in Ottawa will know especially well right now—partisanship and public health are unfortunately in a kind of death struggle right now on the streets of Ottawa. I don't want to comment any further on that, but I will say that we have had a big pr

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I'm going to completely defer to Dr. Parsons in terms of the specific reforms that might be suggested to the Privacy Act. He has made a much greater and more comprehensive study of these things than me. However, I'm going to borrow the old 1960s situationalist sloga

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I think there are two reasons for this. One of them is direct, in that the actions of the government itself, in this case, and Telus as a corporation do indeed lead the public to suspect that maybe something is wrong, and therefore decrease trust. However, there are also i

Information & Ethics committee  Simply put, no. I agree that most of this data was probably necessary. It was important for it to be used for public health, but at the same time, no, the safeguards have not been made public or accessible in an adequate way.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for your question. My comments here really relate to the increasing need for good-quality data to produce policy that's effective. We've seen that, whether it comes from open-source data, industry data, or data generated through specific research, which many of us who

Information & Ethics committee  Hello. My name is Dr. David Murakami Wood. I'm the current director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University and associate professor in the department of sociology. I have a similar background to that of Professor Lyon, although, obviously, I'm less eminent and ha