All Quotes

"There’s no shame is making money because the more you make, the more good you can do."

"Gifted and original, a keen observer of human nature, a master of language with every shade of expression at command, he united a broad sense of humour and an effective satire with a deep sincerity of religious feeling, a delicacy in the portrayal of conditions of the soul, and a poetical force and beauty in his descriptions of nature."

"The novelist's mission is to make the invisible visible through words. And words are the wisdom of the novelist, the writer, and the poet. "There is no peace if we do not rest on the shields, heads, and bodies of the decapitated enemy.""

"“Please don’t skip the fundamental knowledge. If it’s not available at your place of learning, go outside of your way to source for granular understanding. Roselyn's advice to aspiring engineers"

"Fall in love with finding solutions and thinking outside of the box.”"

"You can’t do good engineering without tenacity to solve problems."

"My experience as a cybersecurity engineer opened my mind to embracing solutions. The confidence that I can navigate any tool and find my way around it, I approached problems with ease."

"The development of skills for sustainable manufacturing is crucial to ensuring an efficient transition to a competitive economy by matching supply and demand for key skills."

"Skill development within the manufacturing sector presents the advantage of high-quality products and can as well address long-term employment concerns through job creation."

"A number of factors ranging from green innovation, climate change, advances in technology, and global economic downturn are driving the need for a competitive and sustainable manufacturing value chain."

"The complexity of today's factories calls for new and existing workers to up-skill in order to influence design changes and production efficiency toward sustainable manufacturing."

"“Uncontrolled waste disposal as far reaching consequences for both human health and the planet. Aside from methane, poorly managed waste contributes to black carbon emissions from open burning, leachate pollution in soil and groundwater, and microplastic release in aquatic ecosystems.”"

"“Decentralization of waste collection by creating local waste stations connected to regional waste treatment and recovery facilities, as a quick-win measure to salvage the situation. This approach will reduce transport-related emissions, promote community involvement in the circular economy, and create localized employment opportunities ensuring environmental, economic, and social co-benefits.”"

"He was a man of the most thorough loyalty to his country and to his order, of extensive learning, free from all desire for personal aggrandisement, and of an unlimited benevolence."

"Surrounding yourself with people who positively encourage you and reflect positivity onto you helps you break out of that mental cage. You need such people because words have the power to shape someone either positively or negatively ."

"The biggest lesson is owning your worth and knowing your value."

"After attending some workshops, I am certain I will do even better. The more we get training, the better we become, and this will ensure the best in the future of cinema. I am an actress, but I didn’t study acting, save for the platforms that train us ."

"It was a raw and emotional moment for Sasha, who is an honest and straightforward friend. She was too real ."

"not be afraid of grabbing such training opportunities since they will enable them to be the best they can be."

"What we acted is actually true. This happens in the world of love and happens to some people. However, it sends a message of perseverance out there ."

"as an actress who acquired training in cinema, she learnt a lot and is aiming higher in the acting field."

"My love for art inspired me to turn my hobby into a career."

"It's an incredible feeling to have my performance recognized, this award validates all the hard work and dedication I have put into my career. It's not just a personal achievement but a testimony to the support of everyone who has been part of my journey."

"there was need for proper collaboration between local leaders so that districts in the city plan together with neighbouring districts to construct feeder roads to ease inter-district cooperation and trade."

"another problem was that ICT infrastructure and equipment used in teaching courses were given to some schools but they are not used partly because they are not enough."

"Rwanda is playing and will continue to play a proactive role in preventive diplomacy, the establishment and consolidation of peace on the African continent, and in other parts of the world ."

"Some schools don’t have smart classrooms because they do not have access to electricity ."

"All we have achieved as women in Rwanda, we owe it to our President ."

"about 75 per cent of roads in the City of Kigali are dirt roads, it was an indication that much needed to be done."

"the computers that were given to schools do not have the capacity to handle some of the programmes such as Geographic Information System (GIS) – a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, manage, and present spatial or geographic data – which schools are required to teach."

"When I’m not working, it’s all about my family. I have a wonderful wife of 39 years, three fantastic sons, and recently a grandson. We like to enjoy sailing and just spending time together."

"Assam has been a big victim of demographic change. In 2021, the Muslim population crossed 38 per cent, and as we speak, it is about 39.5 per cent of the state population"

"If people from other parts and communities are excluded, Assamese Hindus are not more than 40 per cent today."

"When I face a challenge, I always find a way. I’m the kind of person who never gives up."

"Most Christians in Europe are of such opinion as though the Malabarian heathens were a rather barbarian people who know nothing of either erudition or moral ethics; yet all this stems from not having known their language properly and having jumped to conclusions from outward appearances. I myself must confess that when I first came among heathens, it was impossible for me to imagine that their language might be a language of proper rules and their life a proper life, but formed very many faulty conceptions on all their activity, believing that among them there were neither civil nor moral laws. For this reason I find it very easy to forgive those who have never been among these heathens and harbour similar erroneous views, since I was myself still inclined to them when I had already been with these heathens for some time; however, as soon as I had learned to understand their tongue a little and was able to talk with these heathens about this and that, I was gradually freed from this misconception and I was able to harbour far better ideas about them. When I finally gained the complete knowledge of being able to read their books, and found that among them those very philosophical disciplines were taught which were being exchanged among the scholars of Europe and that they have proper written laws from which all theological matters must be derived and demonstrated on; I was greatly astonished by this and conceived a great desire to learn as much as possible about their heathendom from their own writings. Thereafter, I got myself one book after another, sparing neither time nor expense until now at last I have got so far through the diligent reading of their books and through the continued discussion with their Brahmins or priests, that I know something definite about them and am able to reason about it. Yet this is a very vast field, so if one would write something detailed about it, one would require a great deal of time and large volumes."

"First, to put it colloquially, the call for stronger enforcement through order making powers, the ability of the OPC to impose meaningful penalties, including fines, is by now a total no-brainer. As Michael Vonn of the BCCLA recently testified before you, “there is no longer any credible argument for retaining the so-called ombudsperson model.” This has already been acknowledged by Commissioner Therrien, and former Commissioners Stoddart and Bernier, fortified by testimony from Canadian jurisdictions that already have order making power, which Commissioners Clayton and McArthur have described as advantageous. Strong investigatory and order making powers are a necessary component of effective privacy enforcement, especially in a global environment. Lets get it done."

"Second, I agree with Commissioner Stoddart and with overlapping testimony by Professor Valerie Steeves, both of whom have stated that PIPEDA’s language needs to be strengthened in a way that reasserts its orientation towards human rights. As Professor Steeves attests, privacy rights are not reducible to data protection, which itself is not reducible to a balancing of interests. Enshrining privacy as a human right, as PIPEDA does, reflects a profound and crucial set of underlying democratic values and commitments. Privacy rights are not merely a tradeoff for business or governmental convenience. PIPEDA needs stronger human rights language."

"Finally, I also agree with those who recognize the need for meaningful consent. In particular, I agree with the four-point proposal put forward by Professor Michael Geist. I have a further proposal outside of my main submission, which I would like very much to share with you. I am hoping that one of you will jot this down and ask me about it during the question period."

"Having reinforced these views, the majority of my remarks will focus on two of the central themes raised by this study: transparency and meaningful consent. I will use this framing language to orient your thinking but, in truth, both of these concepts require expansion in light of dizzying technological progress."

"When PIPEDA was enacted, the dominant privacy metaphor was George Orwell’s 1984—“Big Brother is Watching you.” Strong privacy rights were seen as an antidote to the new possibility of dataveillance—the application of information technologies by government or industry to watch, track and monitor individuals by investigating the data trail they leave through their activities. Though perhaps no panacea, PIPEDA’s technology neutral attempt to limit collection, use and disclosure was thought to be a sufficient corrective."

"However, technological developments in the 17 years since PIPEDA go well beyond watching. Today, I will focus on a single example: the use of AI to perform risk assessment and delegated decision-making. The substitution of machines for humans shifts the metaphor away from the watchful eye of Big Brother, towards what Professor Daniel Solove has characterized as “a more thoughtless process of bureaucratic indifference, arbitrary errors, and dehumanization, a world where people feel powerless and vulnerable, without any meaningful form of participation in the collection and use of their information.” This isn't George Orwell’s 1984—its Franz Kafka’s Trial of Joseph K. Since the enactment of PIPEDA, the world we now occupy permits complex, inscrutable AI to make significant decisions that affect our life chances and opportunities. These decisions are often processed with little to no input from the people they affect, and little to no explanation as to how or why these decisions were made. Such decisions may be “unnerving, unfair, unsafe, unpredictable, unaccountable”—and unconstitutional. They interfere with fundamental rights, including the right to due process and even the presumption of innocence."

"It is worth taking a moment to drill down with real life examples. IBM Watson is used by H&R Block to make expert decisions about people’s tax returns. At the same time, governments are using AI to determine who is cheating on their taxes. Big Law uses ROSS to help its clients avoid legal risk. Meanwhile, law enforcement agencies use similar applications to decide which individuals will commit crimes and which prisoners will reoffend. Banks use AI to decide who will default on a loan, universities to decide which students should be admitted, employers to decide who gets the job, and so on."

"But here is the rub. These AIs are designed in ways that raise unique challenges for privacy. Many use machine learning to excel at decision-making; this means AIs can go beyond their original programming, to make “discoveries” in the data that human decision-makers would neither see nor understand."

"This “emergent behavior” is what makes these AIs so useful. It also makes these AIs inscrutable. Machine learning, Knowledge Discovery in Databases, and other AI techniques produce decision-making models differing so radically from the way humans make decisions that they resist our ability to make sense of them. Ironically, AIs display great accuracy—but those who use them (even their programmers) often don’t know exactly how or why."

"Dr Aster is an outstanding and exemplary teacher and a good role model who pushes her students to aspire to greater heights while lending them every possible support within her means."

"Permitting such decisions without an ability to understand them can have the effect of eliminating challenges that are essential to the rule of law. When an institution uses your own personal information and data about you to decide that you don’t get a loan, or that your neighborhood will undergo more police surveillance, or that you don’t get to go to university, you don’t get the job, or you don’t get out of jail, and those decisions cannot be explained by anyone in any meaningful way, such uses of your data interfere with your privacy rights."

"I think that this is the sort of reason a number of experts have told you that we need greater transparency or, as some have put it: “algorithmic transparency.” But it is my respectful submission that transparency does not go far enough. It is not enough for companies or governments to disclose what information has been collected or used. When AI-decisions affect our life chances and opportunities, those who use the AIs have a duty to explain those decisions in a way that allows us to challenge the decision-making process itself. This is a basic privacy principle enshrined in data protection law worldwide."

"I would therefore submit that PIPEDA requires a duty to explain decision-making by machines. A duty to explain addresses “transparency” and “meaningful consent” concerns but goes further in order to ensure fundamental rights to due process and the presumption of innocence. Arguably, such a duty is enshrined in the forthcoming EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Even if it is not, Canada should lead by enacting such a duty. I would go even further, following EU GDPR Article 22, and suggest that PIPEDA should also to enshrine “a right not to be subject to a decision that is based solely on automated processing.” PIPEDA was enacted to protect human beings from technological encroachment. Decision-making about people must therefore maintain meaningful human control. PIPEDA should prohibit fully automated decision-making that does not permit human understanding or intervention. And, to be clear, I make these submissions not to ensure EU “adequacy.” I make these submissions because they are necessary to protect privacy and human rights."

"Mama raised me right. Among other things, she taught me that you don’t accept a dinner invitation and then complain to your hosts about what is being served. Mama’s gentle wisdom notwithstanding, I would like to conclude my remarks today by making two uncomfortable observations."

"First, as I appear before you today, I think it is fair to say that my sense of déjà vu is not unwarranted. With the exception of a few new points (such as my submission in favour of a new duty to explain), much of what I have said, indeed much of what everyone who has appeared before you has said, has all been said before. Although many of the honourable members of this Committee are new to these issues, those who have done their homework will surely know that we have already done this dance in hearings on Bill S-4, Bill C-13, the Privacy Act, the hearings on Privacy and Social Media and, of course, the PIPEDA Review of 2006. And yet we have seen very little in the way of substantive legislative change. Although ongoing study is important, I say, with respect, that you are not Zamboni drivers. The time has come to stop circling round the same old ice. It is time now for you to make some much needed changes to the law."