This doctor is definitely not in..Blacklock’s Reporter says Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, is refusing to appear for questioning at the Commons ethics committee..MPs had asked her to explain a data scoop that saw the Public Health Agency collect information on 33 million cellphone users..“She refused to come before committee,” New Democrat MP Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, Ont.) said Monday..“That’s not a small thing. I’m certainly not suggesting we subpoena the chief medical officer before this committee, but I do want to remind members of this committee we do have those powers.”.The committee on December 14 by a 10-0 vote summoned Tam and others to explain the collection of cellphone tower tracking data..The Public Health Agency earlier told Blacklock’s it sought the information to monitor compliance with lockdown orders..“It is the way in which we have allowed private corporations in the telecom cartel to take information that ought to be private and sell it, in this case to the government,” said Green, adding: “I have a deep concern that the chief medical health officer has turned down our invitation to come before this committee..“To simply refuse to show up before committee to me is a problem. If this is going to be a characteristic of this government or of the senior bureaucrats of this government, to refuse to come before committee, then I think we’re going to be headed into a bit of a problem here.”.Conservative MP John Brassard (Barrie-Innisfil, Ont.), who earlier sponsored the motion to investigate the Health Agency data scoop, said Tam must appear..“It was agreed on a vote of 10 to zero, 10-nothing,” said Brassard..“It was clear and it was stated and it was unequivocal. I am very, very disappointed..“We want the best results from a public health standpoint but we also need to be bloody well assured the privacy rights of Canadians are being protected. Until and unless we get to that point where we’re satisfied, I think it’s a concern of many Canadians their mobility data was collected without them knowing.”.The scope of the monitoring was only detailed when the PHA issued a December 17 notice to contractors to expand the program..“No personal information was asked or was received,” Dr. Harpreet Kochhar, president of the PHA, testified January 18..“The actual reason why we collected this data is reliable, timely and relevant public health data comes out of it for other policy and decision making.”
This doctor is definitely not in..Blacklock’s Reporter says Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, is refusing to appear for questioning at the Commons ethics committee..MPs had asked her to explain a data scoop that saw the Public Health Agency collect information on 33 million cellphone users..“She refused to come before committee,” New Democrat MP Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, Ont.) said Monday..“That’s not a small thing. I’m certainly not suggesting we subpoena the chief medical officer before this committee, but I do want to remind members of this committee we do have those powers.”.The committee on December 14 by a 10-0 vote summoned Tam and others to explain the collection of cellphone tower tracking data..The Public Health Agency earlier told Blacklock’s it sought the information to monitor compliance with lockdown orders..“It is the way in which we have allowed private corporations in the telecom cartel to take information that ought to be private and sell it, in this case to the government,” said Green, adding: “I have a deep concern that the chief medical health officer has turned down our invitation to come before this committee..“To simply refuse to show up before committee to me is a problem. If this is going to be a characteristic of this government or of the senior bureaucrats of this government, to refuse to come before committee, then I think we’re going to be headed into a bit of a problem here.”.Conservative MP John Brassard (Barrie-Innisfil, Ont.), who earlier sponsored the motion to investigate the Health Agency data scoop, said Tam must appear..“It was agreed on a vote of 10 to zero, 10-nothing,” said Brassard..“It was clear and it was stated and it was unequivocal. I am very, very disappointed..“We want the best results from a public health standpoint but we also need to be bloody well assured the privacy rights of Canadians are being protected. Until and unless we get to that point where we’re satisfied, I think it’s a concern of many Canadians their mobility data was collected without them knowing.”.The scope of the monitoring was only detailed when the PHA issued a December 17 notice to contractors to expand the program..“No personal information was asked or was received,” Dr. Harpreet Kochhar, president of the PHA, testified January 18..“The actual reason why we collected this data is reliable, timely and relevant public health data comes out of it for other policy and decision making.”
