Information & Ethics committee  No. It is not typically based on time, although if a public body does not respond to an access request within the amount of time specified in the legislation, we may get a complaint. We would then investigate that complaint to determine that they were not responsive in a particul

Information & Ethics committee  That is correct. The request for review comes to my office. There is a third and final level of appeal, and that is to the courts, if either party believes that they don't like our order. Our orders can be judicially reviewed.

Information & Ethics committee  In the last 19 years, we've had 1,094 orders. I don't know the total number of judicial reviews on those, but I'm going to guess it's in the range of, say, 20%.

Information & Ethics committee  It was in 1996, I believe.

Information & Ethics committee  I believe the last time was in 2011.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't recall.

Information & Ethics committee  No, there have been ongoing revisions.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I might submit, one of the areas where B.C. is a bit unique is that we have a data localization provision which created a lot of logistical problems and subsequent legislative updates to exceptions to that. However, in some other areas, there have also been changes to the

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. I want to talk about the proposed reforms to the Access to Information Act from the B.C. perspective. I think I will start by characterizing the scope of the act, which is the ideal of openness and transparent access to information, so the public can be invo

Information & Ethics committee  I agree with Mr. Gogolek that Canadians' personal information should be protected, no matter which organization is collecting that information. As I noted in my earlier remarks, in B.C. the political parties fall under the ambit of our act. If a federal political party were colle

Information & Ethics committee  Our public awareness survey surveyed about 1,000 citizens. It was more about their awareness of the functions of our office and their rights. It was not related to specific businesses, or whether or not they were comfortable with business practices.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, we are in favour, and have recommended to our parliamentary review committee, that the fining be increased in the public sector, and also in the private sector acts, to have more of a deterrent effect. We are not seeing cases so much in the private sector, but are in the pub

Information & Ethics committee  In the case of the B.C. act, I've indicated already that we haven't seen challenges, but where technology is taking us in the analysis of big data, there is a large amount of discussion around the analytics that can be unleashed upon information that was not originally collected

Information & Ethics committee  First of all, we publish—as do other commissioners—annual reports on how our legislation is being enforced and our enforcement activities. We've just undertaken our first public awareness survey to assess people's awareness of the functions of our office and their privacy rights,

Information & Ethics committee  In the B.C. act, there are fines, but they've never been imposed. In terms of the adequacy of compliance or alignment with the GDPR, I think both Canada and the provinces are going to have to examine the amount of their fines, and to bring them more in line with what the GDPR i