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44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 6, 2024
The Chair (Mr. Joël Lightbound (Louis-Hébert, Lib.))
  • 11:06:52 a.m.
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Good morning, everyone. I call this meeting to order. Welcome to meeting number 122 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry and Technology. Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the adopted order and the Standing Orders. Before we begin, I would like to remind all members and other meeting participants in the room of the following important preventative measures. To prevent disruptive and potentially harmful audio feedback incidents that could cause injuries, I remind all in-person participants to keep their earpieces away from the microphones at all times. As indicated in the communiqué from the Speaker to all members on Monday, April 29, 2024, the following measures have been taken to help prevent audio feedback incidents. All earpieces have been replaced by a model that greatly reduces the probability of audio feedback. The new earpieces are black, whereas the former earpieces were grey. Please use only the approved black earpieces. By default, all unused earpieces will be unplugged at the start of a meeting. When you're not using your earpiece, please place it face down, in the middle of the round sticker on the table, as indicated. Also, please consult the card on the table for guidelines to prevent audio feedback incidents. Finally, the room layout has been adjusted, as you have been able to see since last week, to increase the distance between microphones and reduce the chance of feedback from an ambient earpiece. These measures are in place to ensure that we can conduct our business without interruption and to protect the health and safety of all participants, including the interpreters, whom we thank. I thank you all for your co-operation. That said, we are holding a new meeting on Bill C‑27. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April 24, 2023, the committee is resuming consideration of Bill C‑27, An Act to Enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts. With that, I would like to welcome back the witnesses who are joining us. Joining us today by video conference from the Department of Industry is Mark Schaan, senior assistant deputy minister, and here, in Ottawa, we have Samir Chhabra and Runa Angus. Thank you for being with us today. Before I begin, I would like to add the following. Colleagues, just to remind everyone of where we were, we're still on CPC-7. (On clause 2) The Chair: There is a subamendment by the Bloc on the floor right now, which we were debating. I will give the floor to Mr. Garon so that he can propose his subamendment.
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Mr. Jean-Denis Garon (Mirabel, BQ)
  • 11:09:47 a.m.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. At the last meeting, we were at amendment CPC‑7, and we had moved a subamendment. Near the end of the meeting, after debating the subamendment for a few minutes, we understood that deciding what we would include in the definition of the term “sensitive” posed a number of difficulties. So I sent everyone a proposal that should enable us to obtain the unanimous consent needed to amend my subamendment. I could read it to you if you like.
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