NOT THE FIRST LEAK

Re: Health Canada Mails Details Of Marijuana Users, March 12.

Such an information leak at Health Canada isn't a first. In the winter
of 2000, my private information and also the private information of
over 120 other medical marijuana exemption applicants leaked out of
Health Canada and mysteriously landed in the hands of an Ottawa
newspaper. Many of us complained to the federal privacy commission
about this. The investigation lasted about a year, until those
concerned received a letter of excuse from the privacy commissioner,
on the behalf of Health Canada

That letter, and this article, stated that the Ministry "takes the
protection of private information very seriously." Really? I have
never trusted Health Canada since my information was leaked.

Marc Paquette

Hawkesbury, Ont.