PIPEDA is administered by the federal Privacy Commissioner, who has the authority to make public statements on violations of the Act and/or refer serious cases to the Federal Court. Here are 5 steps on how the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act is enforced.
If you are not familiar with PIPEDA, read more about what it stands for here.
For more information about your obligations on PIPEDA, read my blog post about the Ashley Madison hack and understand the safeguards put in place by the victim organization at the time of the breach and in light of the act.