Me Marc-Aurele Racicot has ended his involvement as a co-author of this publication which has been published in 19 separate annual editions since 2002. Me Racicot has left an indelible impression on the substance and style of this authoritative legal text which will continue to feature his DNA for a long time to come.

Federal Access to Information and Privacy Legislation Annotated provides the reader with all the tools necessary to understand, interpret, and apply the provisions of the federal access to information and privacy legislation. In addition to substantive law and expert analysis, this exhaustive reference is updated regularly throughout the year, and includes under a single cover an encyclopedic treatment of the legislative history, court decisions as well as dicta, and the myriad administrative publications published by the federal government, namely:

• Three historical chapters respecting governmental discussion papers and parliamentary debate concerning the creation of the Access to Information Act and its subsequent operation in practice
• Fully annotated Access to Information Act and its Regulations, Privacy Act and its Regulations, and Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
• Business guide for protecting confidential, commercial, or trade information from disclosure under the access legislation
• A citizen's guide on how to make effective use of the access legislation, which contains precedents and actual examples of successful applications, and reveals tried and proven techniques used by experienced users of this statute
• Guide for the litigant, which includes guidelines for those who wish to apply to the Federal Court
• Sections on identity theft, internet security, and privacy concerns with social networks
• A Words and Phrases section containing words and phrases that are applicable to and have been considered in the context of privacy and access law litigation.

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