CMST 2LW3 Lecture 18: November 15th
30 Mar 2020
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Access to information: who watches the watchmen, what people want not what polities want to share, sweden in 1766. Canadian info governance: federal, provincial, territorial information commissioners, complaints and government monitoring, records, exclusions documents that are already public. Speci c documents given to the prime minister (con dential documents) government documents. Information in con dence, records of investigations audit, records containing third party information and personal information. You can request information from canadian intelligence agency and it will be blacked out. The most sensitive information will be hidden: request process. Bill c 58 was supposed to update the privacy act and request information act. Obligations and declining to act on a request: The speci c subject matter of the request (why do you want to learn that information) The period for which the record is being requested or the date of the record.
