A Canadian parliamentary committee plans to meet in secret today with the Canadian Privacy Commissioner’s top bureaucrat to discuss its investigation into office expenses and information provided to it by the Commissioner’s office. Newspaper reports indicate that the parliamentary committee has been swamped this week by anonymous phone calls detailing allegations about the office’s operations. see: Coverage here also see: Coverage here.
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Investigation Widens
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