Harmonization with provinces will be key when introducing new data privacy legislation, say privacy experts

Provinces such as Quebec and British Columbia have updated their online data privacy regimes, which the federal government may want to take into account in developing its own privacy legislation.

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne was directed to introduce legislation to advance the Digital Charter and strengthen privacy protections for consumers in his mandate letter on Dec. 16.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY JESSE CNOCKAERT

February 7, 2022

Highly-anticipated legislation to update Canada’s online privacy laws, expected to be introduced in the current session of Parliament, will need to harmonize with the data protection regimes introduced in provinces in recent months in order to prev...

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