Access to information and privacy rights

It also summarizes concerns raised and recommendations made in relation to these changes by the Offices of the Information and Privacy Commissioners of Canada to the House of Commons Subcommittee on Public Safety and National Security(3) and the Special Senate Committee on the Anti-terrorism Act,(4) and by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner to the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Com [...] In terms of the way these sections of the CEA interact with the new sections of the Access to Information Act, PIPEDA and the Privacy Act, the new sections of the latter three statutes state that if the Attorney General issues a section 38.13 CEA non-disclosure certificate in relation to documents or personal information before a complaint is filed under the Access to Information Act, PIPEDA or th [...] The Minister of Transport may then disclose the information to other officials within the Department of Transport and to certain officials outside the department, such as the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, the Minister of National Revenue, and the CEO of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA), for the purposes of transportation security. [...] Due to their particular expertise with respect to information and privacy issues, the concerns and recommendations of the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in relation to the above provisions have been outlined below. [...] A. Recommendations of the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada When the Information Commissioner and the Deputy Information Commissioner appeared before the Special Senate Committee on the Anti-terrorism Act on 30 May 2005, and when the Deputy Information Commissioner appeared before the House of Commons Subcommittee on Public Safety and National Security on 8 June 2005, they expressed