
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner also provided public opinion research suggesting that this perception is widespread among Canadians. Experts and stakeholders who appeared before this committee raised concerns that the basic framework in the Privacy Act is overdue for a thorough review. In 2016, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee (ETHI Committee) studied this topic. The Act is federal legislation focussed on the protection of personal information held by the federal government and federal public-sector institutions. After 35 years of technological advances and social change, Canadians’ expectations of how federal institutions use, share and store their personal information have changed.

At that time, information was still mainly stored on paper. Our world has changed dramatically since Canada’s Privacy Act came into force in 1983.


The chances of implementing the reform plan successfully are now “greater than on previous occasions,” according to the latest OECD assessment of Italy, reflecting the fact that the EU money is conditional on achieving targets - creating unprecedented incentives and a stronger political consensus to complete key reforms.Learn how Canada’s Digital Charter helps build a foundation of trust in a digital world Italy’s Resilience and Recovery Plan, which pairs funds from the EU with structural reforms, “has the potential to put its economy on a higher growth trajectory, therefore resulting in a much better environment for foreign investors,” says Nicola Nobile, an economist at forecasting company Oxford Economics. She says foreign investment in Italy has been low because the country’s civil justice system is inefficient, there is too much red tape, and the fiscal situation is unattractive - contributing to a poor reputation overall.Īll of these problems are now being addressed under the recovery plan and with the leadership of Mario Draghi, the former president of the European Central Bank.
