I was used to the regime that Drew has just described in British Columbia. Then I came to Nova Scotia where there's no mandatory requirement for information sharing agreements. There's no direction specific from government that's regularly followed, as far as I know, because there's no mandatory consultation with my office so I don't see them. I'm a big fan of information sharing agreements. It forces organizations and government departments to think about what they're going to share, why they're going to share it, what their authority is, and what security they're going to build around it. It's a very good tool. It tends to make them reduce what they're doing, be clear why they're doing it, and monitor how it's happening.
On October 4th, 2016. See this statement in context.