2025 CIPL Learning Day (LEG00225)

Overview

Delivery method

In-person

Virtual classroom

Duration

7 hours

Audience

Legal Professionnals

Description

Please note that this course is open to Justice Canada legal professionals only (lawyers, notaries who are members of the Chambre des notaires du Québec and paralegals).

The Center for Information and Privacy Law (CIPL) invites Justice legal professionals to attend CIPL’s 2025 Learning Day. This biannual conference is an excellent opportunity for Legal Services counsel, litigators, and other Justice colleagues to familiarize themselves with common issues and emerging advisory, litigation, and policy trends relating to the Access to information Act (ATIA) and Privacy Act (PA). In a changing world, the PA and the ATIA remain important safeguards to protect individuals’ personal information and to enhance government transparency through the right of access to records under the control of government institutions.

Access to information and privacy (ATIP) topics covered at this year’s upcoming learning day include:

• Topics in ATIP Litigation: (i) identifying the appropriate standard of review for the adjudication of ATIA and PA applications and appeals; and (ii) best practices and recent experiences with deemed refusal litigation and Federal Court review of time extensions under the ATIA.
  
  
• Artificial Intelligence and Privacy Issues in a Regulatory Environment: This panel will discuss two timely issues from the intersection between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and privacy law. The panel will first revisit the law of the horse debates in the age of AI by exploring how privacy fits within the changing landscape of AI and whether the PA is sufficiently adaptable to handle these changes? Thereafter panelists will use case studies to set out various issues involving AI to explain how Justice counsel may consider these issues. The panelists will lastly explore questions including whether there is a need for AI to be regulated in Canada including any privacy considerations.
  
  
• Debunking common fallacies and misconceptions about ATIP law through an entertaining and educational quiz for legal professionals including questions about the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of personal information; understanding procedural issues in ATIP litigation; protecting Cabinet confidences; identifying Justice’s legal resources on ATIP law, etc.
  
  
• Considerations about solicitor-client privilege in the context of access requests for historical records. This panel will explain the purpose and importance of solicitor-client privilege in s. 23 of the ATIA; how the discretion in the exemption is exercised, and external pressures to exercise that discretion in favour of disclosing historical records that contain solicitor-client privileged information. This panel will discuss the development of the 2024 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) Policy Guidance on the Disclosure of Historical Records under the Access to Information Act as it applies to the ATIA exemption for solicitor-client privileged information and the development of the 2019 Library and Archives Canada Principled Framework for considering the disclosure of historical solicitor-client privileged records. The panel will also discuss how the issue of freedom of information requests for access to solicitor-client privileged information is handled in other Canadian and common law jurisdictions.
  
  
• CIPL is also pleased to announce that Professor Karen Eltis, from the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, will be our keynote speaker.
  
  

This course is bilingual, with interpretation available in both official languages.

In person location (NCR): National Library and Archives Canada, Winifred Bambrick Salon B Conference Room, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa Ontario

Presented by the Centre of Information and Privacy Law (CIPL) in collaboration wht the Legal Practices Policy Division (LPPD).

Registration deadline: 5 working days prior to the course date.

Participants are responsible for adding their training activities to their Outlook calendars.

Accommodation measures: The Department of Justice is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free learning environment. If you have any accessibility needs in order to fully participate in the training activity, please contact your manager to discuss your needs. You may also call upon the services of the Centre for Workplace Access-Ability, Health and Wellness to help identify what type of accommodation measures you require.

For more information: Contact the Centre for Legal Education Services.

For information about the continuing professional development (CPD) hours for this course, please consult the 2025 Accreditation Summary.

If you have questions concerning the accreditation process, please contact our accreditation team by email (Accreditations@justice.gc.ca).