The Public Health Agency of Canada is looking to hire someone to monitor the confidential medical records of Canadians, despite the agency’s history of disregarding personal data and privacy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Government of Canada has put out a call to hire someone to track and trace the medical records of all Canadians.

In a publication released on March 6, Health Canada put out a call for a supplier to help strengthen public health surveillance through primary care insights.

The description states that Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems are widely used in Canadian primary care settings and offer significant potential for disease surveillance. The “Pan-Canadian primary care EMR data is recognized as valuable for federal public health surveillance programs,” it reads. “The recently released Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy emphasizes the importance of primary care research moving towards real-time data sharing and person-centric data.”