Reinforcing Privacy and Access to Information Rights During and After a Pandemic

Canada’s Information and Privacy regulators issued a joint resolution calling on their respective governments to respect Canadians’ quasi-constitutional rights to privacy and access to information. The regulators took note of the serious impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the right of access to information and privacy rights in Canada and called on governments to use the lessons learned during the pandemic to improve these rights. The joint resolution also called on Canada’s governments to show leadership by making the modernization of legislative and governance regimes around freedom of information and protection of privacy a priority. Read More