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Rick Perkins

Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
Conservative

South Shore—St. Margarets
Nova Scotia
Voting Attendance: 67%
Expenses Last Quarter: $136,927.65

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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 - 165 - Mar/7/23

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

Mar/7/23 11:03:41 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-27

Madam Speaker, I believe I heard the member for Winnipeg North say in his presentation that the Conservatives were supporting the bill. That is incorrect. We are opposing the bill, not that we oppose the modernization. It is needed, but this bill is inadequate. There are many reasons but the primary reason is that it does not put personal privacy interests above those of business interests. In the “purpose” section of clause 5 in the bill, it says that, basically, they are of equal weight. Further on, in subclause 18(3), the bill says that a legitimate interest of a business, determined by a business, is a reason that a business can use one's data without one's permission, in a way that they did not get permission for. That is one of the fundamental flaws in the bill, in terms of the idea that personal information, mine or anyone's, is mine and should be paramount and superior to that of the business. The business is there just to serve my interest, not of equal value. I would like the hon. member to comment on that.

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Context: House Hansard - 156 - Feb/8/23

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

Feb/8/23 6:29:17 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-34

Madam Speaker, there seems to be some confusion on the Liberal side about this issue of zero state-owned enterprises. In the last quarter, four lobster-buying businesses in my riding were acquired by a Chinese state-owned enterprise. It controls the price at the dock. It paid five times the value of the business. It is taking that over. That is why, from my view, I support what the member said, but I wonder if the member could expand on that a little more to educate the folks on the government side so they will accept some amendments.

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