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Elections chief to Senate: give OPC oversight over party privacy policies

News | 11/30/2018 3:09 pm EST
Head of Elections Canada Stéphane Perrault appears before a Senate committee on Nov. 28, 2018. /Screenshot via SenVu

The head of Elections Canada is urging the government to give the privacy commissioner jurisdiction over complaints under proposed legislation that will compel political parties to have, and make public, privacy policies — a call that previously fell on deaf ears.   

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