On November 18, the Alberta Legislature passed a first reading on the Personal Information Protection Amendment Act. The proposed amendments specifically address the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by a trade union in a labor dispute after the Supreme Court of Canada's November 2013 decision in Alberta v. United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401 to provisionally invalidate the Personal Information Protection Act because the Act improperly restricted union activity.
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