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Blake Richards

  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Banff—Airdrie
  • Alberta
  • Voting Attendance: 68%
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Context: House Hansard - 174 - Mar/28/23
Mr. Blake Richards
  • Mar/28/23 3:50:37 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-27 
Madam Speaker, I appreciate the invitation to be heard from a committee. I am not sure that I would consider myself an expert in any way. I know that there will be many whom people need to hear from. However, one of the groups of experts that we need to hear from is Canadians themselves. Canadians are concerned about their privacy. Beyond that, the member mentioned the fact that we need to look at what other countries are doing and things like that. I think that is important as well. I did not get a chance to reference it in my remarks, although I had hoped to, but we know that what is being proposed here is much different from what the EU has in place under its General Data Protection Regulation and even what Quebec has in its GDPR-style regime. I think we will have to consider that and what those implications are in terms of the adequacy of international—
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