Industry committee  Actually, I just wanted to correct the record, because I understood that you were asking me, “Were you part of drafting?”, but if you were asking, “Are you part of any of the consultation processes?”, I was part of some of the consultations, but I was not part of drafting. I just

Industry committee  The Biden executive order is not law. We would have to actually see what the U.S. is capable of passing as law. In the Canadian context, you have fines that are stricter than what you would find under the EU context, so you already have a significant deterrent, from the monetary

Industry committee  Did I participate in the...?

Industry committee  Okay. I participated in the national consultations on data and digital literacy, I think it was, in 2018. I participated as an innovator—as one of the innovation leads. I did not participate in the drafting of the digital charter, nor in the white paper to reform PIPEDA that c

Industry committee  I'm not sure I'm in the best position to comment on whether the two bills should be separated, but what I will say is that they are conceptually linked. Much of what goes into the AI bill does depend on the type of data that it relies upon, which then touches on part 1 of that bi

Industry committee  Do you mean in advance of the collection?

Industry committee  I'm not necessarily sure about that. I don't know if it's reasonable that it would be tabled with the commissioner in advance, but I do support the application of the privacy impact assessment as a tool to mitigate risk.

Industry committee  If I've misunderstood anything, please let me know. Number one, I am very empathetic to the concerns of small and medium-sized businesses when it comes to the level of compliance. That is part of the reason it is very important that we harmonize wherever possible, because part o

Industry committee  Most of the holes that need to be plugged are found in the minister's amendments, in the letter that was tabled by the minister and read together with the companion documents. If you were to take it all together and we were to see a bill that addresses all of those different poin

Industry committee  I'm not sure I fully align with that. Where there is criminal activity, it's typically already covered in the Criminal Code. The issue with AIDA as it's currently constructed is that it is intended to be an accountability framework for high-impact systems. In this current constr

Industry committee  Can you just repeat the question?

Industry committee  I fully agree with my colleague's point that you can combine proposed sections 35 and 39. It can be an effective way to more flexibly use personal information in a responsible manner, but you would do so with the governance of the privacy impact assessment in place, so that there

Industry committee  To the first point, I don't know. I don't know why it wasn't included in the original draft, so I don't have an answer to that. It wasn't part of the consultations that I was part of. To the second point, sensitive information has always been, and remains, a contextual analysis

Industry committee  Biometric data would constitute sensitive information as well. By and large, thinking about the contextual analysis, I would typically include that there. If you look at Law 25 in Quebec, you will see a definition of sensitive information that I think can be very informative, so

Industry committee  I would support that.