Specialized Tools
The Association of Access to Information and Privacy Professionals (AAPI) releases specialized tools that are specially designed to meet the needs of ATIP professionals from public bodies, in the performance of their duties and of any related assignments.
The AAPI is currently developing tools that are meant to meet the needs of appointed people in charge of the protection of personal information in private companies, who have to comply with the provisions of the bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information.
Starter Kits
Trousse d’entrée en fonction des professionnels en accès à l’information et en protection des renseignements personnels – Organismes publics du Québec
You have just been appointed as an access to information and privacy (ATIP) professionals in one of Quebec’s public bodies. You are beginning to perform your duties today and are asking yourself the following questions:
- What are the first steps I need to take?
- What actions should be put forward?
- What should my priorities be?
- What are the existing, useful tools?
The AAPI designed the Trousse d’entrée en fonction des professionnels en AIPRP–OPQ specifically to answer any questions you may have. Step by step, this tool will help you in performing the main tasks included in your position as a professional, whether you are the appointed person in charge or a consultant.
To learn more about the Trousse d’entrée en fonction des professionnels en AIPRP–OPQ and on how to get your user licence, please visit the Outils et formations AAPI digital platform.
Trousse d’entrée en fonction du responsable de la protection des renseignements personnels – Entreprises privées
The AAPI is currently developing a tool meant for people in charge of the protection of personal information in private companies. This tool will put forth the provincial and federal legislative provisions, as well as those of the European Community’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Collection Guides AAPI
Guide pratique sur l’accès et la protection de l’information
The Guide pratique sur l’accès et la protection de l’information was designed to support and guide ATIP professionals in their responsabilities related to the application of the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information.
More than just a simple guide, and more than an annotated Act, this support tool written by Ms. Diane Poitras—the current president of the Commission d’accès à l’information (CAI)—and constantly being updated is an extremely useful document, and the most comprehensive collection that has ever been created on the topic.
Please visit the Outils et formations AAPI digital platform to learn more about the Guide pratique sur l’accès et la protection de l’information, which is only available in digital format by Éditions Yvon Blais.
Guide pratique sur la protection de l’information – Entreprises privées
The Guide pratique meant for the private companies’ professionals is currently being developed. The release of the first edition is expected in early 2021. This tool will put forth provincial and federal legislative provisions, as well as those of the European Community’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Médiathèque
The AAPI is offering its members an exclusive access to a media library that highlights all the wealth of documentation that was produced during its 30 years of existence, which is still relevant in managing and applying ATIP.
The Médiathèque includes a wealth of documentary resources, that come from lectures about access to information and privacy that are held during conventions and Journées professionnelles. It also includes archives of L’Informateur public et privé, the quarterly newsletter that was published by the AAPI from 1995 to 2016, as well as publications from specialists on topics related to ATIP. A search tool allows members to quickly access the documents.
