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Rick Perkins

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • South Shore—St. Margarets
  • Nova Scotia
  • Voting Attendance: 66%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $136,927.65

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Context: House Hansard - 165 - Mar/7/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Mar/7/23 11:53:27 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-27 
Madam Speaker, we have talked about legitimate interest being an exception of a business being able to use data without permission. Another provision in the act, subsection 15(5), gives a business the ability to do implied consent, which is really consent without consent. Can you comment on how the Liberals are in the pockets of big tech on that?
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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 - 136 - Nov/28/22
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Nov/28/22 12:53:53 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-27 
Madam Speaker, one of the important concepts of this legislation is clause 18, which introduces the concept into law of legitimate interests of the business. It says that when there is a legitimate interest of the business, it can choose to use a person's data for something that it did not intend, if it is of more importance to the business and it does not think it would cause too much harm to the individual. I wonder if the member could tell us why the government believes that a company has a right to use an individual's data without their permission.
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