Tuesday, January 06, 2004

Article: Privacy Act imperils provinces' ability to make local business laws

National Post: Privacy Act imperils provinces' ability to make local business laws by Simon Chester of the Financial Post

Tuesday, January 06, 2004
"...Jean Charest's Quebec government has just cast the future of Ottawa's new privacy law -- the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act -- into doubt. The Quebec government, in its first constitutional battle with Ottawa in a decade, has asked the courts to decide whether Ottawa has any power to force Canadian businesses, of whatever size, to meet national privacy standards...."

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