In an op-ed for The StarPhoenix, Murray Mandryk looks back on Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Gary Dickson’s 10 years in office and his efforts to get the provincial government to “take health privacy issues seriously,” quoting Dickson as saying, “Good luck as a healthcare patient in Saskatchewan.” Mandryk writes, “no officer of the legislature has borne the brunt of this government's pettiness more than has Dickson, who raised issues concerning our health information privacy with a rare combination of passion and reasoned eloquence …The government didn't afford Dickson the courtesy of indicating it might have actually bothered to listen. It just ignored him, as it tends to ignore all officers of the legislature.”
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