Federal Access to Information and Privacy Legislation Annotated

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Federal Access to Information and Privacy Legislation Annotated 2008

25th Anniversary Edition


	Format	Softcover
	Catalogue No.	978-0-7798-1212-7
	Pages	Approximately 1700
	Language	English only
	Price	$97.00

Written by Colonel Me Michel W. Drapeau, OOM., CD, LL.L., LL.B., and Me Marc-Aurèle Racicot, B.Sc., LL.B.
Published by Carswell, 2007.

This is an annual publication. The 2008 edition was released December 2007.

Description:

Now celebrating 25 years in publication, the Federal Access to Information and Privacy Legislation Annotated 2008 contains everything you need to understand, interpret and apply the provisions of the federal access to information and privacy legislation. In addition to expert analysis from two of the country’s leading privacy and access lawyers, this comprehensive reference contains an extraordinary useful compendium of key materials for those with an interest in those statutes.

There are significant changes to the 2008 edition, including the addition of a foreword by the Honourable Senator Francis Fox who, as Minister of Communication in the Trudeau Government, was responsible for the enactment of the first access to information legislation in Canada. The Parliamentary debate and historical documents surrounding the legislation that Mr. Fox spear-headed is all included for the first time in the soft cover edition.

Also included in this anniversary edition are key historical documents, chronicling the story of Canadians’ information rights from initial discussion in 1977 to enactment in 1983.

Notable features include:

Fully annotated versions of the:
- Access to Information Act and its Regulations
- Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
- Privacy Act and its Regulations
Bilingual (English/French) Business Guide for protecting “Confidential” commercial or trade information from disclosure
Citizen’s Guide to making effective use of the access legislation and containing precedents and actual examples of successful applications. Reveals tried and proven techniques used by experienced users of this statute
Guide for the litigant, which includes guidelines for those who wish to apply to the Federal Court
Reference material:
- Concordance between the Access to Information Act and Privacy Act
- Concordance between the federal and provincial access statutes
- Summary of mandatory and discretionary exemptions
- Summary of statutory delays under the Access to Information Act, the Privacy Act, and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
- National, provincial and territorial contacts
- List of Departmental Access to Information and Privacy Coordinators
- List of key internet addresses
- Listing of Treasury Board Secretariat’s Implementation Report on Access to Information and Privacy – Period 1983 to present
- Powers, duties and functions delegated to ATIP Coordinators of selected institutions
Index
Historical discussion papers
Quick Locator
Nominative Index

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