The only comment I would make is that I believe some of the witnesses, including the B.C. privacy commissioner, were dealing with the particular issue in the context of what an organization would be able to disclose about either its clients or employees in a prospective purchase in the mergers and acquisition situation. Both the B.C. and Alberta legislation accommodated those situations, because sometimes a company cannot legally disclose to anybody, either to its employees or its clients, that there's a deal in the works, because this would be in breach of securities legislation, if it's a publicly traded company.
On February 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.