🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1f3lboINN19p@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> mathew@unixg.ubc.ca (Mathew B Englander) writes:
>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.
>

I think Strangway's been sniffing glue again.

This is private information of individuals, they can't give it out.

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

I'm inclined to think Strangway is misinformed.
>Mathew Englander.


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