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Context: House Hansard - 174 - Mar/28/23

Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)

Mar/28/23 1:19:54 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-27

Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague about the overall theme of his speech, which was about the positioning of personal privacy versus business interests. In clause 5 of this bill, it basically says that the purpose of the bill is to balance interests. There has been a lot of discussion about the protection of personal privacy interests. However, clause 18 of the bill says that business interests can trump individual interests by saying that express consent is not needed for a company to do something with the information of an individual if the company thinks it is in the legitimate interests of the company. I wonder what the member thinks about a government that says this protects personal privacy while giving all the power to the businesses to determine legitimate interest.

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Context: House Hansard - 174 - Mar/28/23

Mr. Glen Motz

Mar/28/23 1:21:04 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-27

Mr. Speaker, I go back to something my father taught me a long time ago that in all things that one is deliberating, one should have a reasonable and a balanced approach. With respect to my colleague's question, there needs to be an appropriate balance, legislatively, so that there is no ambiguity and misinterpretation. However, the businesses and individuals, whose information a business has, have the comfort of knowing that it is used appropriately, that there are safeguards in place for its use and that it is not going to be misused. I think that would be an appropriate balance to strike.

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Context: House Hansard - 174 - Mar/28/23

Ms. Leslyn Lewis

Mar/28/23 1:38:11 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-27

Mr. Speaker, I beg to disagree. There were largely areas of constructive discussion in my speech, and I will highlight some of them for my friend. The government needs to have an infrastructure framework that will protect the privacy of Canadians before it can demand that of businesses. Businesses, which are already saddled with red tape, do not even have the mechanism to put this in place. Nor does the federal government have the structure to put this in place, but it demands that the business sector do that, with sweeping loopholes that could violate the privacy of Canadians. The first thing we need to do is ensure that the Liberals put in place a legislative framework that will set the foundation for digital privacy in Canada.

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Context: House Hansard - 174 - Mar/28/23

Hon. Pascale St-Onge (Minister of Sport and Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, Lib.)

Mar/28/23 2:57:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, not only are we listening to small and medium-sized businesses but we proved it during the pandemic, among other times. I cannot say how many small business owners I have met in my riding and across Quebec who tell me the extent to which we were there for them. It is thanks to programs that we put in place during the pandemic that they were able to retain jobs and, thanks to those jobs, families are now able to pay their rent and buy groceries. We have always been there for small businesses and for those most in need, and that will still be the case today with this budget.

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Context: House Hansard - 174 - Mar/28/23

Hon. Mark Holland (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)

Mar/28/23 3:03:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, again, the use of consultants is an ability that allows the government to maintain flexibility in difficult times. As an example, during the pandemic we had to vastly increase our ability to be there for Canadians and to be there for small business owners to make sure that their businesses did not fail so that they could have the success we are seeing in the incredible jobs recovery, which is one of the strongest of our comparator nations. It is in fact due to the ability to use the flexibility of contracts to achieve that. To mis-characterize that or to try to create shadows with it is irresponsible.

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Context: House Hansard - 174 - Mar/28/23

Mr. Ted Falk

Mar/28/23 3:37:16 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-27

Madam Speaker, if we read the bill, especially in section 18, where the government has carved out a little space for business, it would appear as though business interests trump those of the private individual. I believe that mistake has been made too often, where we have given personal data to businesses too flippantly. Personal private data, first and foremost, belongs to, and should be protected by, the individual.

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