XPost: can.politics, bc.politics, ont.politics   
   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   On 16/04/2014 4:16 PM, {~_~} Раиса wrote:   
   > . . . Next time you think about crossing the border into the U.S. for   
   > milk, cheaper gas, or even a Jehovah's Witness gathering. (>_<)   
   > We can't register long guns, but we sure as hell have the time and money   
   > to register Canadians.   
   >   
   > CPIC has a new name: Canadians' Psychiatric Information Checklist   
   > _______________________________________   
   > CBC News Posted: Apr 14, 2014   
   >   
   > Canadians' mental-health info routinely shared with FBI, U.S. customs   
   >   
   > Privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian found attempted suicide calls   
   > uploaded to international database   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Ontario’s privacy commissioner has discovered that the mental-health   
   > information of some Canadians is accessible to the FBI and U.S. Customs   
   > and Border Patrol.   
   >   
   > Ann Cavoukian said Monday that some Ontario police services routinely   
   > uploaded attempted suicide calls to the Canadian Police Information   
   > Centre (CPIC), to which U.S. border guards and the FBI have access.   
   >   
   > Cavoukian began investigating how U.S. law enforcement had access to   
   > such personal information after last fall's news that some Canadian   
   > travellers with a history of mental-health issues had been denied entry   
   > into the U.S.   
   >   
   > Ellen Richardson was turned away at Toronto's Pearson airport by U.S.   
   > customs agents because she was hospitalized in June 2012 for clinical   
   > depression.   
   >   
   > She attempted suicide in 2001 by jumping off a bridge, leaving her a   
   > paraplegic. But her mental health has since improved with medication and   
   > professional help from a psychiatrist, she said.   
   >   
   >   
   > Ontario privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian began investigating how U.S.   
   > law enforcement had access to Canadians' mental-health information after   
   > last fall's news that some Canadian travellers with a history of   
   > mental-health issues had been denied entry into the U.S.   
   >   
   > The border agent cited the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act, which   
   > denies entry to people who have had a physical or mental disorder that   
   > may pose a "threat to the property, safety or welfare" of themselves or   
   > others, she said.   
   >   
   > The privacy commission said she was “deeply concerned” by the incident.   
   >   
   > “I found it so unnerving to think about the embarrassment and   
   > humiliation a person would feel,” Cavoukian said. “I needed to find out   
   > exactly how such sensitive and personal info was ending up in the hands   
   > of U.S. border officials.”   
   >   
   > Cavoukian spoke with police departments from Toronto, Waterloo, Hamilton   
   > and Ottawa. She also spoke with the OPP.   
   >   
   > She said only the Toronto Police Service “automatically” uploads all   
   > attempted suicide and suicide calls “across the board" to CPIC.   
   >   
   > Cavoukian found that it is “not mandatory” for police services to upload   
   > such calls.   
   >   
   > “This is entirely at the discretion of the police service involved,”   
   > Cavoukian said.   
   >   
   > She said there is no legal requirement that suicide attempts be entered   
   > into the Canadian Police Information Centre database and claimed it was   
   > the policy of the Toronto Police Service.   
   >   
   > But Toronto police spokesman Mark Pugash says that's just not so, and   
   > officers do use discretion about which cases are uploaded to the database.   
   >   
   > However, Pugash also says the force feels the information is important   
   > for officers to have, and if Cavoukian doesn't want it shared with   
   > American officials, then she should ask the Mounties to change who has   
   > access to what data.   
   >   
   > Cavoukian said the information is then loaded into the CPIC database,   
   > which is available to U.S. border guards through a co-operation   
   > agreement between the RCMP and the FBI.   
   >   
   > She said Hamilton, Waterloo, Ont., Ottawa and the OPP “all exercise   
   > discretion in doing this.”   
   > Personal health info should be protected, CAMH says   
   >   
   > Cavoukian found that 19,000 “mental health episodes" have been uploaded   
   > to CPIC.   
   >   
   > "The untenable practice of automatic or blanket sharing of police   
   > information related to suicide threats or attempts simply cannot   
   > continue," Cavoukian said.   
   >   
   > "The record of a person's suicide attempt is personal health   
   > information, that should be protected to the greatest extent possible,"   
   > said Dr. Peter Voore, medical director at the Centre for Addiction and   
   > Mental Health (CAMH).   
      
   I agree. If you can get a pardon to nullify your criminal record there   
   should be some mechanism to keep your personal health information private.   
   >   
   > “I am calling upon all police services across Ontario to immediately   
   > cease the practice of automatically uploading or disclosing personal   
   > information relating to threats of suicide or attempted suicide via   
   > CPIC, by default,” Cavoukian said.   
   >   
   > She said suicide attempts should only be uploaded to CPIC if:   
   >   
   > They involved the threat of serious violence or harm, or the actual use   
   > of serious violence or harm directed at other individuals.   
   > They could reasonably be considered to be an intentional provocation of   
   > a lethal response by police.   
   > The individual involved had a history of serious violence or harm to   
   > others.   
   > The suicide attempt occurred while an individual was in police custody.   
   >   
   > "CAMH is in full agreement with the findings of this investigation and   
   > we strongly support the recommendations that the commissioner has put   
   > forward," Voore said.   
   > ________________________________   
   >   
   > Canadian woman refused U.S. entry because of depression   
   > Canadians with mental illnesses denied U.S. entry   
   >   
      
      
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