In Nova Scotia, we do not have mandatory breach notification for significant breaches. Instead, what we see are the minor breaches I mentioned. I think we received reports of in the neighbourhood of 900 minor breaches of personal health information last year. About a third of those are missent faxes or the high-tech version of that, which is selecting the wrong provider code in a database so that health information goes to the wrong provider. It's these types of breaches that tend not to cause significant harm. Occasionally, we hear about more significant breaches. These are the snooping in databases. In small communities, that's quite significant both in terms of finding locations for individuals or finding medical information, including mental health information, which is quite embarrassing.
On October 4th, 2016. See this statement in context.