Human Resources committee  Obviously we don't have insight into every memorandum of agreement, but it's illustrative that in an important case in 2003, the Aliant Telecom case, the board decided that section 87.4, which deals with maintenance activities, is not broad enough for them to require that there b

Public Safety committee  Yes. I also think our industry is doing a very good job of that. It's a critical function of what our members do. As you mentioned, bad actors are constantly evolving their techniques. We're always having to modify our processes and technology.

Public Safety committee  Thanks for the question. Incentives are always good. There are some smaller organizations that have a greater burden to introduce new measures. I think we have a lot of incentive already. Our members' reputations are built on protecting privacy, security, etc. Our concern with

Public Safety committee  It's a very good question. One of the things is that our members have very robust cybersecurity processes already, and, as Mr. Ghiz mentioned in his remarks, they already collaborate deeply with government. Many of the things that could come about as a result of Bill C-26 are th

Public Safety committee  Certainly. Right now, the way it's worded is that, if the minister believes it's necessary to do or not do something.... I think it's important to require that the order be made only after consulting prescribed expert bodies. That could be a C-stack, for example. It could be othe

Public Safety committee  We're not saying that they should be indemnified. It could be just a drafting issue, but the legislation right now says that providers are not entitled to compensation. That's open to interpretation. Does that just mean they don't have a right at law of compensation, or does that

Public Safety committee  Sure. It's kind of a puzzling thing for us in the legislation, because all other affected parties in the legislation are able to show.... If they're alleged to have committed a violation, a defence could be that they've done everything reasonably possible to avoid making that vio

Public Safety committee  You have to be careful about being speculative, but we've already seen the government make a policy statement in 2022 regarding a requirement to remove equipment from specific suppliers from the infrastructure, namely telecommunications providers, so that's an example. The order

Public Safety committee  Are you talking about the confidentiality of the order, or the confidentiality of information supplied?

Public Safety committee  That's a good question. We're definitely sensitive to that. Definitely, there are circumstances where there may be legitimate reasons why portions of an order or in some cases the entire order needs to be kept secret. The way we look at it is that secrecy should be the exception

Public Safety committee  There already are existing mechanisms in situations or court hearings where there is confidential or secret information that can't be made public or shared with the target. A special advocate who has the required security clearance can question the government, test the evidence a

Public Safety committee  We're certainly not suggesting that there be judicial oversight over every aspect of the decision-making process before the decision has been made. Certainly, there needs to be judicial oversight for rights of appeal, rights for the targets of an order to be able to question the