Political parties fall into a legal grey area between two separate privacy laws.
The issue came to a head last week after some private citizens complained they had received unsolicited Rosh Hashanah greetings from Prime Minister Stephen Harper last month.
The federal privacy commissioner has launched a preliminary inquiry into how information regarding individuals' religious affiliation came to be attached to a party mailing list.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/10/18/4586939-cp.html [Proofreader’s note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on October 23, 2007]
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