WHITEHORSE - Yukon Information and Privacy Commissioner Diane McLeod-McKay has joined her counterparts across the country in a joint resolution, which calls on their respective governments to uphold Canadians’ quasi-constitutional rights to privacy and access to information. The resolution takes note of the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on these rights. In addition, the resolution asks governments to use the lessons learned during the pandemic to improve the protection of these rights.

The joint resolution adopted 11 access to information and privacy principles and called on Canada’s governments to show leadership by implementing them and making the modernization of legislative and governance regimes around freedom of information and protection of privacy a priority.

To read the entire news release and the joint resolution itself, click here.