Below are the submissions and supporting affidavits from FIPA and the BC Government in the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) Hearing in March 2014, which resulted in Order F14-45. Submissions: FIPA intial submissions FIPA reply submission BC Government reply submission BC Government initial submission Affidavits: Taylor Affidavit Johnson Affidavit Madden Affidavit Email […]

Government affidavits claimed an RCMP investigation was ongoing VANCOUVER – The BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (BC FIPA) has asked Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham to investigate the BC government’s claims that the RCMP had an active investigation into the 2012 firings at the Ministry of Health. An Access to Information request […]

June 9, 2015 Elizabeth Denham Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia PO Box 9038, Stn. Prov. Govt. Victoria, BC V8W 9A4 RE: BC Government submissions in OIPC file F12-50727   Dear Commissioner, I am writing to ask you to conduct an investigation under s.42 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act […]

W. Taylor Affidavit S. Johnson Affidavit Email from Sgt Cowan RCMP Exhibit A

Click to read our latest blog on the Huffington Post The spring session of the B.C. Legislature has just wrapped up with a bang. The NDP released a letter from a former Liberal executive assistant to the minister of transportation alleging that he was ordered to delete dozens of emails related to the Highway of […]

“No responsive records” systematically used by Government to avoid releasing documents in Freedom of Information requests VANCOUVER— The BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) is concerned that the alleged destruction of email records related to missing women on the Highway of Tears is a new and disturbing part of an ongoing trend by […]

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May 14, 2015 The Right Honourable Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada Langevin Block Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2   Re: Use of the Parliamentary Time Machine Dear Prime Minister: Like most Canadians, we are shocked by your government’s decision to bring in legislation to retroactively undermine the Access to Information Act using amendments buried in […]

FIPA’s 2014 Annual Report is online! Read about our work this past year here.

Click here to watch an excerpt of a presentation by lead author Pippa Lawson at the launch of “The Connected Car: Who is in the Driver’s Seat.”    

New report by BC FIPA takes a hard look at how our cars are watching us Our cars have changed. Once simply a means of traveling from point A to B, cars are increasingly capable of astonishing computerized feats. New “Connected Cars” are essentially computers on wheels whose functions include navigation, diagnosing vehicle health, monitoring […]

In a 2-1 ruling handed down April 23, the BC Court of Appeal has upheld an earlier decision which found that although third party ‘advertising’ provisions of the Election Act violated the Charter, they could still be justified. The law makes something as simple as putting a handwritten sign in your window during the election […]