Information & Ethics committee  Regarding the purpose clause in Nova Scotia, it's more on the access side in terms of how useful it's been, but I could see it working in a similar way on the privacy side. It spells out the series of things that are intended to be accomplished by the law, things like facilitatin

Information & Ethics committee  It is the same.

Information & Ethics committee  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 ther

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. The offices of ministers are covered as the head of the public body.

Information & Ethics committee  There are some challenges with that, for sure, but I think it's a very important part of access law.

Information & Ethics committee  The same thing is true in Nova Scotia.

Information & Ethics committee  Is that a question going back to the order-making versus hybrid?

Information & Ethics committee  From having experience with both order-making and recommendation-making, I can say without hesitation that plain recommendation-making is not a good model. I would say one of the other two is definitely what I would strongly recommend. As I have mentioned, I think consistency acr

Information & Ethics committee  I think the only other thing I would add is that the issues on the privacy side are complicated. The technology issues associated with it, the fact that data is moving around the world, these are all managed by these data protection offices that our Privacy Commissioner is an equ

Information & Ethics committee  I think those are very important voices, for sure, but there's a whole layer of these oversight agencies contributing significantly to the conversation around what our privacy standards are. Not only that, but they have these enforcement authorities, these fining authorities, tha

Information & Ethics committee  If I understood your question correctly, if I imagine my office split so that there's access and there's privacy, your question is whether they have the same oversight authorities.

Information & Ethics committee  My view very strongly at the federal level, having been there, and thinking of it in the Nova Scotia context, is that the two offices are regulating the same entities. I would think it would be very important that they have the same authorities, either order-making or not, becaus

Information & Ethics committee  I agree with Drew. At the provincial level, it works really well, because this is the system we're used to. At the federal level, though, these are two huge issues and they take a lot of attention. It seems to have worked well having them separate. Those are my thoughts.

Information & Ethics committee  As the information and privacy commissioner I do have an education mandate, but the government itself also has a central group who manages access in privacy, and they provide privacy training within the government departments proper. Most of the training that I do is for the smal

Information & Ethics committee  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 tho