This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, March 21st.

This week, we begin with a troubling pattern that has been unfolding across Canada.

What started in British Columbia with Bill 9 is now being echoed elsewhere: governments and political actors chipping away at access-to-information and privacy rights while describing those changes as modernization, efficiency, or administrative reform.

Taken together, it looks less like a series of isolated reforms and more like a broader race to the bottom—one where secrecy expands, accountability contracts, and the public is asked to accept it all as reasonable housekeeping.

Show Notes: https://fipa.bc.ca/nm/20260321-access-and-privacy-online

Individual Stories: https://fipa.bc.ca/tag/2026-season-episode-12

FIPA Bill C-4

• Bill C-4 Dashboard: https://fipa.bc.ca/fipa-bill-c-4-part-4-dashboard/

• Bill C-4 Backgrounder: https://fipa.bc.ca/bill-c-4-background/

• FIPA E-petition page: https://fipa.bc.ca/upcoming-hoc-e-petition

• House of Commons E-Petition: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237

• Donate to Help Us Reach More Canadians: https://fipa.bc.ca/pr/donate-c4/

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Writing: Shaun Fisk | Production: Patrick Farnsworth | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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