CLHIA Submission on Bill 64: An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information
Release Date: 09/25/2020 Staff Reference: Lyne Duhaime; Anny DuvalThe Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA) greatly appreciates the opportunity to provide comments in response to the Committee on Institutions’ Consultation on Bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information (hereinafter “Bill 64”).
We would like to begin by saying that we commend the government’s willingness to modernize the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (hereinafter the “Private Sector Act”) so that the new legal framework reflects best practices and new ways of protecting personal information.