Senate’s amendment for Bill C-4 rejected, government vows to protect Canadians’ privacy

Senate’s amendment for Bill C-4 rejected, government vows to protect Canadians’ privacy

Red Chamber pushed back on section that exempts political parties from provincial privacy law

Government Enacts Political Party Anti-Privacy Rules With Bill C-4 Royal Assent Sprint

I've written extensively about Bill C-4 and the government's effort to bury political party privacy rules that largely eliminate privacy obligations for federal political parties and apply the new rules retroactively to May 2000. This past week's Law Bytes podcast featured Senate hearings on the bill, which ultimately resulted in an amendment to require the government to establish actual privacy obligations within three years. The government yest