Recommendation 16: That PIPEDA be amended to give the Privacy Commissioner
broad audit powers, including the ability to choose which complaints to investigate.
The Minister argued that the only possible interpretation of section 231.1 of the Act is that the Minister can conduct oral interviews of taxpayers and that the section provides for
broad audit powers.
Not exact matches
The Internal
Audit function has significantly
broader powers than does the QA
Audit function, in that any facet of the organization and its operations can be examined for deficiencies and for potential improvements, including deficiencies in the corporation's written processes and written procedures which the QA Auditors have no authority themselves to go beyond in performing their
audits, or to criticize directly.
At the end of the consultation process, the Taskforce issued an «Interim Report on Key Issues and Funding,» in which it acknowledged that «concerns have been expressed that the Commissioner's
power to conduct compliance
audits is unnecessarily
broad,» notably because the Commissioner could conduct an
audit simply because it considered it necessary to do so.
Further, she agreed with Cameco that the Minister's
audit powers are
broad but not unlimited.