Information & Ethics committee  Tens of thousand.

Information & Ethics committee  Right now the only way to get a binding order is to go to Federal Court.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely, and if businesses do, then there is not going to be any problem. What PIPEDA does is it takes an industry code of practice, developed by industry, and just turns it into legislation so that perhaps the minority of bad actors out there are also caught. The good guys ar

Information & Ethics committee  I know that for many years PIAC and also CIPPIC have been calling for the naming of organizations that have been found delinquent under the act.

Information & Ethics committee  The Competition Act is similar.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not sure. The money they're getting right now, $16 million, is a pretty decent amount of money. I don't have the ability to judge what you can do with that.

Information & Ethics committee  There are a number of complaints that are disputes between one individual and one company, and those absolutely are appropriately dealt with through mediation, resolved and settled, and no one's name needs to be published in those cases necessarily. But there are many more, cert

Information & Ethics committee  No, I think the release of the corporate name should be after the findings have been made.

Information & Ethics committee  There was one case where we made a complaint against the company, and it was the third time. It had been complained about twice before, and you could determine that.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, I think it's fine. I think it's a good idea to have reasonable grounds. I think there is a place, however, for spot audits, like randomized spot checks, if the commissioner has the resources to do that, where it doesn't have to be a company against which there have been sev

Information & Ethics committee  It's six years. The act came into force on January 1, 2001, and everyone knew about it then. The provincially regulated businesses were given three years' grace period, basically, before it became effective for them. So they had that first three years to think about it and get e

Information & Ethics committee  That's not true. For many of the members of the Canadian Marketing Association, it's been effective since 2001. For some of their members it's only been effective since January 1, 2004, but it's been around since 2001, and they all knew about it.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. It's a good question. I think certainly more could be done in terms of educating small businesses and getting the word out about what they have to do under PIPEDA. I think there may be a perception out there that it's much more onerous than it actually is. PIPEDA does

Information & Ethics committee  And it probably won't ever affect them. This is largely directed toward businesses that are in the business of dealing with personal information.

Information & Ethics committee  This is the question. Why are they asking for that information? Do they really need to? If once they're getting into that business--