The federal government failed to properly black out sensitive information during a recent Federal Court case — and now it wants that information back under cover.
According to a recently filed court document, the government was "unaware that the blacked-out text" in documents released to the applicant's lawyer by the Canada Border Services Agency and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada "could be lifted to reveal confidential and sensitive information." CBSA also separately released sensitive information that it neglected to redact.
Lawyer Benjamin Perryman said the error likely won't help his clients and may only delay their case further. He said the breach still raises questions about how both CBSA and IRCC handle information deemed top secret by the federal government.
"It is a snafu only because it doesn't look like this is a legitimate assertion of national security privilege. If this was top secret information upon which the security of Canada rested, it would be very alarming that this is the process that CBSA and IRCC are following," he said.
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