Evan Solomon: “I can confirm that the Canadian government is part now of Project Glasswing, which allows companies to have access to…”

Our primary purpose here is to give control back to Canadians over their own personal information and to require by law — with enforcement — that companies treat the information very sensitively.

Trust is absolutely vital and upcoming legislation on online harms and privacy will be an important element in building that trust.

It’ll be lots on trust, lots on empowering workers, lots on building Canada. You’ll see the details later this week.

The new privacy bill is pretty explicit that if in collecting information, the harms outweigh the benefits, then it will contravene the act.