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From: Mathew B Englander
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1992 23:07

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In the Campus Times this week, UBC president David Strangway is
quoted saying that when British Columbia's new Freedom of Information
Act is proclaimed, the university will have to give a student's
transcript out to anyone who asks for it.

Surely this is not true. Freedom of Information legislation is supposed
to allow citizens to see the inner workings of government, not files
about other individuals. For example, the federal Freedom of Information
Act will not allow me to see my neighbour's income tax return.

If Strangway's interpretation is correct, then BC has some very poor
legislative drafters indeed.

Mathew Englander.

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