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House Hansard - 23

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 3, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 23 - Feb/3/22
Mr. René Villemure (Trois-Rivières, BQ)
  • Feb/3/22 2:56:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Ottawa has issued a call for tenders for a vendor to collect location data from all citizens' cellphones, without their knowledge, and share it with the Public Health Agency of Canada once it is anonymized. The deadline for the tendering process is tomorrow. I do not want to be alarmist, but we must be vigilant in the face of such a lack of transparency. At the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics meeting on Monday, following a Bloc Québécois initiative, all parties of the House, including the Liberal Party, called for the tender to be suspended. I repeat, the deadline is tomorrow. Will the minister suspend the tender, yes or no?
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Context: House Hansard - 23 - Feb/3/22
Mr. René Villemure (Trois-Rivières, BQ)
  • Feb/3/22 2:57:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois is not questioning the Public Health Agency of Canada's motives. What we want is time. We want time for the ethics committee to make sure this move to collect massive amounts of personal data protects people's right to privacy. The tendering process closes tomorrow. The committee does not have time to investigate. If there is one principle Health Canada should be thoroughly familiar with, it is the precautionary principle. Will the Minister suspend the tender, yes or no?
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