First Session, 42nd Parliament (2021)

Special Committee to Review the Personal Information Protection Act

Virtual Meeting

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Issue No. 2

ISSN 1913-4754

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Membership

Chair:

Mable Elmore (Vancouver-Kensington, BC NDP)

Deputy Chair:

Dan Ashton (Penticton, BC Liberal Party)

Members:

Garry Begg (Surrey-Guildford, BC NDP)


Rick Glumac (Port Moody–Coquitlam, BC NDP)


Adam Olsen (Saanich North and the Islands, BC Green Party)


Rachna Singh (Surrey–Green Timbers, BC NDP)


Andrew Wilkinson, QC (Vancouver-Quilchena, BC Liberal Party)

Clerk:

Susan Sourial



Minutes

Thursday, January 28, 2021

2:00 p.m.

Virtual Meeting

Present: Mable Elmore, MLA (Chair); Dan Ashton, MLA (Deputy Chair); Garry Begg, MLA; Rick Glumac, MLA; Adam Olsen, MLA; Rachna Singh, MLA; Andrew Wilkinson, QC, MLA
1.
The Chair called the Committee to order at 2:05 p.m.
2.
Resolved, that the Committee meet in camera to review: the Committee’s terms of reference and previous statutory reviews; information and evidence submitted during the 41st Parliament; and a decision note regarding the work of the Committee in the current Parliament. (Adam Olsen, MLA)
3.
The Committee met in camera from 2:06 p.m. to 3:03 p.m.
4.
The Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair at 3:03 p.m.
Mable Elmore, MLA
Chair
Susan Sourial
Clerk Assistant, Committees and Interparliamentary Relations

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2021

The committee met at 2:05 p.m.

[M. Elmore in the chair.]

Committee Workplan

M. Elmore (Chair): Hello. Pleased to convene our Special Committee to Review the Personal Information Protection Act. I’d like to welcome all the committee participants as we undertake this important review.

I’d like to start by asking for a motion to go in camera.

A. Olsen: I move a motion to go in camera.

M. Elmore (Chair): Thanks, Adam.

Can somebody second? Okay, terrific.

Motion approved.

The committee continued in camera from 2:06 p.m. to 3:03 p.m.

[M. Elmore in the chair.]

M. Elmore (Chair): We’ve just come out of in camera for the Special Committee to Review the Personal Information Protection Act.

I will entertain a motion to adjourn but recognize, as well, that I’m speaking to you from the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

Do I have a motion to adjourn?

Motion approved.

The committee adjourned at 3:03 p.m.