The Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner is raising some potential issues over the provincial government’s measures around COVID-19.
At the end of April, the premier announced restrictions on all non-critical travel to the north, which included checkpoints.
The commissioner said to his knowledge, this is the first time this kind of travel restriction has been put in place in Saskatchewan.
Ronald Kruzeniski’s concern is whether personal information is being asked for and recorded. “So I think training people at checkpoints saying, ‘You can’t ask this.