Alberta privacy chief asks legislature to overhaul province’s privacy law

EDMONTON –  Alberta’s information commissioner says her office can’t do its job properly unless the government overhauls the province’s privacy law.

Jill Clayton says her office has been having trouble getting information from the government that it needs to determine if it can grant information requests.

She says some requests from opposition parties, the media and the public have been stymied going back to 2012.

The problems include the government blacking out big sections of reports and government lawyers speaking for witnesses her investigators want to interview.