Information & Ethics committee  For access, there has to be a source of request. And there can also be complaints about the way personal information is being handled. But to be honest, privacy, like access to information, is a records management problem. And the major source of expense for companies--more than

Information & Ethics committee  That could be useful.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, we have a very large exemption at the CBC, because information gathered for journalistic, artistic, and literary purposes is excluded from the act. That is basically our core business. So for us it's simply about employees, pretty much—aside from our selling tickets to show

Information & Ethics committee  I can say, as Mr. Peterson suggested, that if all of our 10,000 employees did a once-a-year check on the information held on them, we would be utterly swamped. They don't do that, fortunately.

Information & Ethics committee  There have been cases before the courts where a decision ended up being made that the request was frivolous, but you have to go quite far into the process set out in the act before a request is ruled frivolous. I should tell you that we have had a case where a person who was no l

Information & Ethics committee  It exists in our corporation. We have a consent clause in our commencement form. But some candidates refuse to sign it and we cannot hire them because we cannot communicate to the government their social insurance number or other similar information. This consent clause is includ

Information & Ethics committee  By categorizing, do you mean, for example, that it was a reporter who made—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, but it's interesting, because the Access to Information Act forbids your categorizing a request under the Access to Information Act, and it is quite improper to reveal to anyone, other than the person who has to handle the request, who that person was. You have a right to th

Information & Ethics committee  I haven't seen the article, so I can't—

Information & Ethics committee  That's not frivolous or vexatious.

Information & Ethics committee  That would not be frivolous or vexatious, I don't think. It's a judgment call. Of course, a person to whom a company said, “This is frivolous or vexatious because you've asked this information 50 times before in the last six months and we have no further information”, could go to

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not sure I could be deferred to, but there is a power in the Federal Court to award damages, as I recall, and I'm just looking for the section now. One can get an order from the Federal Court. In fact, as the Privacy Commissioner pointed out, I believe, this legislation in te

Information & Ethics committee  The information legislation specifically forbids a head of an institution from providing personal information, unless there's a very strong overriding public interest in some cases. CBC is not yet subject to ATI, although we get third party requests all the time. We have not yet

Information & Ethics committee  You would have to put that question to her because it is her practice.

Information & Ethics committee  I would like to answer. It is not a privilege, it is left to the discretion of the privacy commissioner. It is a process that she established, but it is up to her to decide if she will disclose or not. Most privacy commissioners do not publicize the names for the time being, but