On April 24, 2009, the Canadian government introduced Bill C-27, which would establish the Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA) and make significant consequential amendments to other federal legislation, including Canada's Competition Act, Telecommunications Act and Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
Continue Reading...In June 2009, the Alberta Court of Appealhad the occasion to consider the expectation of privacy of employees with respect to their workplace computers and found that an employer is “entitled not only to prohibit use of its equipment and systems for pornographic or racist purposes but also to monitor an employee’s use of the employer’s equipment and resources to ensure compliance.”
The case of Poliquin v. Devon Canada Corporation (2009 ABCA 216) examined the availability of a summary judgment motion in a wrongful dismissal case. Mr. Poliquin was terminated from his position as a senior supervisor at Devon Canada after 26 years of service for, among other things, using a workplace computer to access and exchange pornographic and racist emails.
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