Appearance before the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples, February 27, 2024

Examine the federal government’s constitutional, treaty, political and legal responsibilities to First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and any other subject concerning Indigenous Peoples

February 27, 2024

Briefing package for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada as witness before the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples on February 27, 2024 on the examination of the federal government’s constitutional, treaty, political and legal responsibilities to First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and any other subject concerning Indigenous Peoples.

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Table of Contents

1. Commissioner’s Statement
2. Issue Sheets
3. Extracts of the Privacy Act
4. APPA Committee Report: Honoring the Children Who Never Came Home: Truth, Education and Reconciliation
5. Department of Justice Report: “Privacy Act Modernization: Report on 2022 Engagement with Indigenous Partners”
6. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
7. Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP) Brochure
8. Canada (Attorney General) v. Fontaine, 2017 SCC 47
9. Additional Q&As
10. Member Biographies