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The ordered closure of TikTok’s Canadian operations over national security concerns will make it more difficult to force the company to cooperate with privacy investigations, Canada’s privacy commissioner said Tuesday. Philippe Dufresne testified to MPs on the House of Commons ethics committee who are scrutinizing the federal government’s order last month that TikTok Canada wind up its operations following a national security review.The government hasn’t shared the specific national security risks that led to the windup order, but has said it won’t prevent Canadians from using the app.The company filed documents in Federal Court in Vancouver last Thursday to challenge the government’s order.Dufresne — whose office and provincial counterparts are currently investigating whether TikTok unlaw...

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday would not say whether the Liberals kept a pledge to cap the budget deficit at $40.1 billion in the previous fiscal year, but said the upcoming fall economic statement will show Ottawa’s balance sheet remains on a “sustainable” track. When Freeland tabled the 2024 federal budget in the House of Commons in April, she highlighted “three very specific fiscal guideposts” that were underpinning “a responsible economic plan.”Those guideposts were capping the federal deficit at $40.1 billion and maintaining both a declining debt-to-GDP ratio and a deficit-to-GDP ratio. 2:04 What to expect from Ottawa’s fall fiscal update ...