Greenleaf, Graham --- "Reporting privacy complaints Pt 3: complaint reporting practices of Canadian Privacy Commissioners" [2002] PrivLawPRpr 47; (2002) 9(6) Privacy Law and Policy Reporter 111

[1] Twelve in 1998-99 — see <www.privcom.gc.ca/information/ar/02_04_06_e.asp#005>.

[2] For 1998-99, see <www.privcom.gc.ca/information/ar/02_04_06_e.asp#,007>.

[3] For 1999-2000, see <www.privcom.gc.ca/information/ar/02_04_06_e.asp#,007>.

[4] I assume the annual reports ,were then on the website. They were erratically presented; for example, the 1999-2000 report had no internal navigation whereas earlier ones at ,least had some.

[5] See <www.privcom.gc.ca/cf-dc/index_e.asp>.

[6] See <www.privcom.gc.ca/cf-dc/def_e.asp>.

[7] See <www.privcom.gc.ca/cf-dc/def2_e.asp>.

[8] For 2000-01 see <www.privcom.gc.ca/information/ar/02_04_09_01_e.asp#031>.

[9] See <www.ipc.on.ca/english/acts/acts.htm>.

[10] See <www.ipc.on.ca/english/acts/prov-act.htm#partiii>.

[11] See <www.ipc.on.ca/english/orders/orders.htm>.

[12] See <www.ipc.on.ca/english/orders/p-index.htm> — go to <www.ipc.on.ca/english/orders/p-23-49.htm#s37> and scroll from s 37 to s 53.

[13] See <www.ipc.on.ca/english/pubpres/reports/reports.htm> for examples.

[14] For example, see <www.ipc.on.ca/english/pubpres/ann_reps/ar-01/ar-01e.htm#privacy>.

[15] See search provided by Management Board Secretariat at <www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/fip/privacy.html>.

[16] See <www.ipc.on.ca/english/whatsnew/whatsnew.htm>.

[17] See <www.ipc.on.ca/english/our_role/how/cmpcht-e.htm>.

[18] See <www.ipc.on.ca/english/our_role/how/complain.htm>.

[19] See <www.ipc.on.ca/english/orders/jud-rev/jr-cr.htm>.

[20] See <www.ipc.on.ca/english/orders/orders.htm>.

[21] Personal communcation from ,the Commissioner’s office.

[22] Above note 21; the texts of FOI judicial reviews have scanned and will be published on the Commissioner’s site, so presumably the same would be done for privacy reviews by courts.

[23] See <www.oipcbc.org/orders/investigation_reports/reports.php>.

[24] See < www.oipcbc.org/orders/section42/>.

[25] See <www.oipcbc.org/orders/>.

[26] See <www.oipcbc.org/legislation/concordance.php> — referred to as a ‘Concordance’.

[27] See <www.oipc.ab.ca/orders/>,for the Commissioner’s website.

[28] See <www3.gov.ab.ca/foip/commissioners_orders/index.cfm>.

[29] See <www3.gov.ab.ca/foip/commissioners_orders/judicial_reviews/index.cfm>.

[30] Professor Karim Benyekhlef of the University of Montreal and his research assistant Nicolas Vermeys have assisted very significantly in obtaining the information on which this section is based, but responsibility for comments remains with the author.

[31] See <www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/eng/droits_en/dro_rec_en.htm> for a brief explanation.

[32] Above note 31.

[33] Nicolas Vermeys has translated the preface to the 2001 edition in order to assist in the preparation of this section.

[34] From the preface, above note 33.

[35] See <www.azimut.soquij.qc.ca>.

[36] See <www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/eng/cai_en/cai_en.htm>.

[37] Canadian Legal Information Institute at <www.canlii.org>.

[38] See <www.canlii.org/qc/index_fr.html> and search for ‘Commission d’Accès à l’information’ (boolean).

[39] See <www.ombudsman.mb.ca/access.htm>.

[40] Above note 39.

[41] See <www.ombudsman.mb.ca/reports.htm>.

[42] Not the only one of course, but this article does not cover Ireland or Jersey, The Isle of Man and so on.

[43] See <www.dataprotection.gov.uk/>.

[44] Information Commissioner Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2002 June 2002.

[45] At pp 75-76.

[46] Bygrave’s review does not indicate that European practices are any more systematic than those in the Asia-Pacific: see Bygrave L ‘Where have all the judges gone? Reflections on judicial involvement in developing data protection law’ Part I (2000) 7(1) PLPR 11 and Part II (2000) 7(2) PLPR 33.