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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 - 254 - Nov/23/23
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • Nov/23/23 8:06:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the member for New Westminster—Burnaby seems to have trouble with relevance and is acting like a Russian disinformation officer, which he generally is in the House. I would urge him to stick somewhere close to the truth.
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Context: House Hansard - 174 - Mar/28/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Mar/28/23 3:36:22 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-27 
Madam Speaker, my question for the member is about the balance between personal information, privacy and business interests. It is something that this bill focuses a lot on. The government talks about balancing them rather than the personal privacy of an individual being paramount. In particular, in subclause 18(3) of this bill, the government says that it is okay if it is in the “legitimate interest” of the company, even if it harms an individual. They do not need express consent to use the information. I wonder what the member's views are on that, and whether or not the government is actually putting the emphasis on the individual or the big tech giants from the U.S.
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Context: House Hansard - 165 - Mar/7/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Mar/7/23 11:21:55 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-27 
Madam Speaker, I think it is ironic that members of the Liberal Party, the government, are claiming some sort of aversion to big corporations. Obviously, they have not read the bill. Subclause 18(3) says: (3) An organization may collect or use an individual’s personal information without their knowledge or consent if the collection or use is made for the purpose of an activity in which the organization has a legitimate interest that outweighs any potential adverse effect on the individual The government does not believe in the protection of personal privacy. It believes in the protection of access to data for companies.
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Context: House Hansard - 136 - Nov/28/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • Nov/28/22 1:25:33 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-27 
Madam Speaker, all information is identifiable because it involves, and should involve, expressed consent up front and is trackable under all systems now, even under AI. It can be, theoretically, and at times the identity is removed to put it together in a larger context of data. I am looking forward to hearing testimony on this. It is my understanding that there are technologies that allow people, through a back end, to figure out and get at that data. I am not sure the legislation is strong enough to deal with the issue of the itemized data, the stuff that had people's individual identification taken off, and that it cannot be reconstituted. I know there are penalties in the bill for doing that if it is done without permission, but there are questions around the technology's ability to truly hide one's data at this point.
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Context: House Hansard - 136 - Nov/28/22
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Nov/28/22 12:40:34 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-27 
Madam Speaker, the member spoke about the protection of minors. I have a simple question. I cannot find anywhere in the bill where it defines a minor or a reference to “sensitive information”. Could the hon. member please inform the House how the bill defines a minor and sensitive information?
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