Last week saw the beginnings of Ontario's election campaign, and Liberals, Progressive Conservatives and the NDP were promoting their policies, but according to Ottawa Citizen columnist Michael Geist, notably absent were digital policy plans. While the federal government generally takes the lead on digital policy, provinces are often the keepers of consumer protection and civil rights legislation, he notes. "With privacy reform stalled at the federal level, there is an important role to play for provincial governments, yet the issue is not discussed by any of the three provincial parties. Several Canadian provinces including Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec have enacted broad-based privacy legislation. Ontario has not, raising the question of where the parties stand," he writes.
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