Meeting and Managing Your Access to Information and Privacy Obligations
Sheetal Bedi
Manager, Freedom of Information and Privacy, Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO)
Madeleine G. Bertrand
Director, Corporate Affairs and Access to Information and Privacy Coordinator, Royal Canadian Mint
The Access to Information Act is applicable to most crown corporations under the Federal Accountability Act. Various
provincial and territorial access to information legislation also applies to provincial and territorial crowns. While the intention
is to increase transparency and accountability, many crown corporations are struggling with the day-to-day management of
their access to information requirements. Access to information and privacy can also be a lightening rod for controversy.
- Understanding the key documents and requirements of federal and provincial crowns’ access to information requirements
- Do subsidiary crowns registered under the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) fall under access to information
legislation or are they excluded? - What are other crowns doing and what are the practices for responding to all access to information requests? What systems
work best? - What items are excluded and what items do you need to keep (board minutes, personnel files, business documents such as
contracts, etc.)? - Understanding the relationship between managing access to information and privacy and good crown governance
- Dealing with contentious issues: access to information and privacy office as devil’s advocate?