Evan Solomon: “We are looking at things like how to combat deep fakes and giving the right to deletion.”

Protection is not the opposite of innovation.

It’s very easy to say just ban using personal information to give personal pricing, because we have to be super careful that we don’t want to penalize people who are members of a rewards program.

We think Canada needs that kind of independent regulator.

“Canada’s consumer privacy laws are 25 years old. They were written before the iPhone. It was a different time, before AI, before deepfakes,” AI Minister Evan Solomon said after tabling the bill in the House of Commons.