As discussed at our AGM, ACPD-CALT has applied to intervene in an FOI issue in the Alberta courts. The Board believes this case raises issues about the unique status, role and expertise of law professors, and the scope of our role as researchers and educators in the public interest. In particular, our read of the last few paragraphs of the case suggests a cabining of the scope of research that does not reflect the contemporary understanding and practice of research by law professors across the country. This is, as far as we know, ACPD-CALT's first application to intervene in the organization’s long history.
ACPD-CALT is grateful to Jennifer Koshan, professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law, whose work is at the heart of this complaint, and to Sean Fluker, also a Professor at University of Calgary and Executive Director of the Public Interest Law Clinic, who is supporting CALT's efforts and has done a great deal of work on this file. Counsel for the Faculty Association will be arguing the case for the proposed joint intervenors. CALT Board member Richard Devlin has been heavily involved in the work, as has our President, Graham Reynolds.
The case is Decision of the Information and Privacy Commissioner: University of Calgary (Re), 2022 CanLII 76344 (AB OIPC), <https://canlii.ca/t/jrlfx>, appealed and returned for decision by a new Adjudicator, properly informed: Governors of the University of Calgary v Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner, 2024 ABKB 522 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/k6lb8>.
Below you will find
(1) JOINT APPLICATION FOR INTERVENER STATUS with the Faculty Association of the University of Calgary and the Canadian Association of University Teachers,
(2) MEMORANDUM OF ARGUMENT OF PROPOSED JOINT INTERVENORS.
Finally, (3) Affidavit of ACPD-CALT President Graham Reynolds.
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