What Other Federal Policies or Pieces of Legislation Should I Keep in Mind?

Although there are differences between the federal and provincial and private sector codes, they are all premised on the fundamental concept that individuals have a right, subject to explicit provisions of other legislation, to control the collection, use and disclosure of their personal information. Source

The Privacy Act, PIPEDA, the Policy on PIAs and the related Guidelines document are the main federal policies and legislations that apply to privacy-related issues. However, there are many other legislative and policy documents that you need to be aware of when considering privacy concerns because they may have an impact.

Your organization's Access To Information and Privacy (ATIP) staff or legal staff will be able to help you determine what other documents you may need to consider.

The following is a listing of legislative documents and policies that may have an impact on a PIA.

Legislation:

• Privacy Act

  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/P-21/index.html

• Access to Information Act

  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/A-1/index.html

• Official Languages Act

  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/O-3.01/index.html

• Anti-Terrorism Act

  http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/terrorism/

• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/index.html

• National Archives of Canada Act

  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/N-2.5/index.html

Policies:

• Privacy and Data Protection Policy

  http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/gospubs/TBM_128/siglist-eng.asp

  This Policy has several sub-policies that you should be aware of. They are:

  • Employee Privacy sub-policy

    http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/gospubs/TBM_128/CHAP3_3-eng.asp

  • Data Matching sub-policy

    http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/gospubs/TBM_128/CHAP2_5-eng.asp

  • Use of Social Insurance Number sub-policy http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/gospubs/TBM_128/CHAP3_4-eng.asp
• Access to Information Policy

  http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/gospubs/TBM_121/siglist-eng.asp

• Official Languages Policies

  http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ollo/common/policies-politiques_e.asp

• Active Monitoring Policy

  http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/
  dcgpubs/am-sa/am-sa-eng.asp

• Enhanced Management Framework Policy

  http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/
  ciopubs/tb_it/efm1-eng.asp

• Management of Government Information Holdings Policy

  http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/dcgpubs/tb_h4/holdings-fonds-eng.asp

• Project Approval Policy

  http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/
  dcgpubs/tbm_122/chap2-1-eng.asp

• Security Policy of the Government of Canada

  http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/gospubs/tbm_12a/siglist-eng.asp

Others:

• Government Records Disposition Program of the National Archives of Canada

  http://www.collectionscanada.ca/information-management/002/007002-2019-e.html

• Integrated Risk Management Framework

  http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/dcgpubs/RiskManagement/rmf-cgr-eng.asp

• Principles set out in the National Standard of Canada entitled Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information, CAN/CSA-Q830-96

  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/P-8.6/92209.html

TBS PIA guidelines

Provincial law