Appearing before the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien discussed Bill C-58 and voiced concern for its current form. Therrien said amendments are needed to strike a balance between access to information and privacy rights. He proposed that a mandatory requirement be in place for the information commissioner to consult his office when disclosing information that has been exempted in certain situations, that a Memorandum of Understanding be established between the two offices to define when consultations should take place on privacy-related matters, and that the information commissioner should be required to produce a final report on any investigation in which the privacy commissioner was consulted.
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