Ottawa to introduce privacy, clean drinking water legislation this week

By Anja Karadeglija The federal government will introduce two major bills in the last days of the Parliamentary sitting, focusing on privacy and ensuring First Nations have access to clean drinking water. The Liberal government has given notice it will bring forward a long-promised update to Canada’s private-sector privacy law. The bill is expected to include protections for children’s data as well as measures ensuring Canadians’ data is not used for surveillance pricing. It would be the Liberal government’s third attempt to update the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, after introducing bills in 2020 and in 2023 that did not become law. The government has also given notice it will introduce a bill “respecting water, source water, drinking water, wastewater and related infrastructure on First Nation lands.” A…

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