In response to OIPC order F14-45, the release of all data sharing and other agreements between January 1, 2011 and August 2, 2012 involving MoH and Rebecca Warburton, William Warburton, Malcolm Maclure and Colin Dormuth; all correspondence between these individuals and the Ministry related to these agreements, particularly discussions of delays or other impediments to access to data for research […]

Request for an investigation into the failure of the BC Government to release information about the Mount Polley tailings pond, contrary to s.25 of FIPPA. Download the complaint

What do you do when you want to make sure documents can’t be requested under freedom of information law? Well if you’re the BC Government, you need only utter one magic word: transitory. Government policy states that a transitory record is one that relates to “temporary usefulness […] needed only for a limited period of […]

Internal e mails FIPA received through freedom of information show that bureaucrats at the BC regulator of financial institutions (FICOM) have privacy concerns regarding the implementation of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in Canada. Download document

Email sent to former Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid on her private e mail account, regarding Burnaby Hospital Consultative committee. The email was leaked to the NDP in 2013. The Ministry of Health deleted the original email, classifying it as ‘transitory’. Download the document

The response to FIPA’s complaint to the OIPC, regarding a FOI request with the Ministry of Health that was returned with ‘no responsive records’. FIPA had requested an email about the Burnaby Hospital Consultative committee that has been sent to Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid’s private e mail account. The OIPC stated that the record had […]