As a policy choice? It's not my place to make that kind of policy pronouncement, if you will, but I think clearly the legislature in B.C. has made that choice in defining “work product information” in the way it has because, as I say, on the face of it that kind of information--prescribing pattern information--would appear to fall within that definition and be within that policy decision.
On November 29th, 2006. See this statement in context.