Grants and Contributions

The purpose of this agreement is to increase awareness, availability and use of lower carbon vehicles and fuels in Canada by supporting the installation of 20 electric vehicle chargers in Nova Scotia

This project advances the Government of Canada commitment to plant an additional two billion new trees over the next 10 years as part of a broader approach to nature-based climate solutions.

The purpose of this agreement is to increase awareness, availability and use of lower carbon vehicles and fuels in Canada by supporting the installation of 20 electric vehicle chargers in Nova Scotia

The enhanced feature set will bring programable logic to the first in class HPC hardware resulting in a competitive advantage for Novonix in the Battery Testing Services market.

As well, we need to develop an understanding of how data synthesis would be treated under various privacy regimes in Canada.

This project aims to provide a detailed overview of data synthesis as a PET used to facilitate data sharing within the Canadian context. It is intended to help Canadian organizations understand what data synthesis is, and to provide an assessment of contemporary methods and technologies and how they can be applied under current and proposed regulatory regimes.

The proposed project consists of three main research phases: 1.

In the age of Big Data, recent technologies and AI allow for the inference of private attributes from a quantity of data that is innocuous when viewed in isolation, but which, when cross-referenced with other data, can reveal in a probabilistic manner things such as a person’s political opinions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, lifestyle and health status.

This information, inferred from information that is not necessarily personal, can be used to influence or manipulate behaviour or opinions and to engage in profiling or discrimination. More and more experts are stressing the importance of addressing this relatively new area of privacy and data protection. Some are even claiming a right to “reasonable inferences”.

In their recent work, researchers have shown that the safeguards offered by current and proposed Canadian legislation (Bill C-11) do not adequately protect the privacy of individuals with respect to the risks posed by the use of inferred information. To adequately protect individuals from these risks, they argue there is a need to shift the focus from individual consent-based control of personal data to a regulatory framework for the use of inferences. These researchers have even suggested that certain inferences should be prohibited. The results of their work support the view that the right to privacy is a necessary condition for the exercise of other fundamental rights. However, this proposal faces a major challenge.

On the one hand, certain experts argue that the protection of fundamental rights must not take place within the context of privacy protection, since these fundamental rights can be protected independently of privacy. On the other, some advocates of a distinctive view of privacy – who support the concept of “collective” privacy – argue that the protection of privacy rights must include protection of algorithmic groups, these groups of people who share a generic identity generated by algorithms.

What should we make of this? The researchers will undertake a critical analysis of these two fundamental theses. In their view, this analysis is necessary if there is to be privacy protection based on rights and recognition of the right to privacy in its entirety.

Canada Cultural Spaces Fund

Sport - Hosting Program

Enhancement of Official Languages Program

To develop a proof of concept for innovative technologies that improve the safety efficiency or environmental performance of Canada's transportation system