Industry committee  Mr. Chair, I will let my colleagues answer that question.

Industry committee  I would just like to add one thing, Mr. Chair. In Canada, the statute that regulates the establishment of a union is the Trade Unions Act. In federal parlance, the current incorporating statute for unions is the Trade Unions Act. I wouldn't have specifics as to whether or not us

Industry committee  Yes. Maybe, just for the benefit of members, I'll go through at least a couple of specific ones and then I'll turn to Mr. Chhabra. Again, to your first point, it's important that we're not making this a contrast between, as I think I said on Monday, the Wild West and Fort Knox,

Industry committee  Maybe just to recap a bit of the discussion we had at the last meeting, this committee has made the determination, through earlier amendments, that the preamble of the bill highlights the fundamental right to privacy, which is the interpretive lens that then gets applied to all t

Industry committee  One of the goals of the proposed legislation is to minimize consent fatigue and to maximize consent with regard to where it is truly important and is understood to be important. If you have to expressly consent for every use of the information that you're providing to a corporate

Industry committee  Certainly, the insertion of the fundamental right to privacy in the bill itself suggests that the fundamental right to privacy applies to personal information. If we add in a category that is then now sensitive—that is, all information for which there is a fundamental right to pr

Industry committee  If all personal information is sensitive information, essentially there is no other means by which a corporation can ever access information except through the express consent of the individual. When we think of just the sheer volume of personal information in a commercial contex

Industry committee  It would fundamentally shift business practices because if corporations had to rely on express consent for every single collection of personal information.... That's not how the market currently operates. Each bit of personal information derived from.... I should have warned yo

Industry committee  Exactly. It was my way of making sure that you all were nice today.

Industry committee  Exactly. For my mom's Fitbit, each piece of data is a piece of personal information related to her activity. If she was required to provide express consent every time that personal information was provided back to the organization, she'd be on her watch all day clicking “yes” be

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, indeed I think the desire here is to make sure there are appropriate protections in place for information that is truly sensitive. The challenge, of course, when putting out a list is that we've assured ourselves that every instance of the utilization of the categorie

Industry committee  That's right. What CPPA aims to do in broad strokes is to ensure that there is a high threshold of privacy protection for all personal information utilized in a commercial context and that there is significant and meaningful enforcement of obligations related to commercial entiti

Industry committee  That is correct.

Industry committee  I'll start and then I'll turn to my colleague. I think that generally the broad ambition of making sure the information that is quite personal in nature holds a high degree of protection by commercial actors is a shared ambition for the entirety of this piece of law. The ratio

Industry committee  That would be very much dependent on the use cases related to what was consented to and how.