Using the Emergencies Act to ramp up testing and track COVID-19

 By Colleen M. Flood, Teresa Scassa The Prime Minister is called upon almost daily to explain why the federal government has not invoked the Emergency Act. Canadians perceive the COVID-19 pandemic to be an emergency and rightly so. The problem is that the Act can only be employed when an

Protecting your private data

 By: Senator Art Eggleton and Senator Raymonde Saint-Germain Canadians are concerned about the protection of their private data – so found a 2016 Survey of Canadians on Privacy undertaken by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.  A reported 90 per cent of Canadians expressed some level of concern about data privacy