Where does a government email go, after it’s sent? The lifespan and anatomy of that email lies at the centre of a sizzling controversy enveloping Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and CBC News.
The lifespan and anatomy of that email lies at theCBC published a story on Jan. 19 alleging that staff in Smith’s office sent questionable emails that criticized Crown prosecutors’ assessments of cases stemming from the border protests last year in Coutts, Alta.CBC said it didn’t have the emails and hadn’t seen them; it relied on unnamed sources.
The Star sent a detailed list of questions to Smith’s government about the email search and its policy around deleted emails. That is to say that a Crown prosecutor would have also had to delete an email from someone in the premier’s office appearing to try to politically influence a case, if the allegations are true.by the province, emails can be deleted only if they fall into certain parameters.
The president of the Privacy & Access Council of Canada, Sharon Polsky, who is based in Calgary, said the government must be more transparent about how the search was conducted.Said the government press secretary: “The search was conducted on approximately 900 mailboxes. This included prosecutors and staff in the as well as staff in the premier’s office. The names of those whose mailboxes were included in the investigation are confidential.
The questions for Polsky lie in the search terms used by the team tasked with combing emails. She says that the search was probably similar to one done when the government receives a freedom-of-information request, and that structuring search terms is “a bit of an art.”
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