Alberta’s privacy commissioner will investigate why an Indigenous teenager in Edmonton received a letter addressed to “Treaty Indian” from Alberta Health Services.
The request was sent to Jill Clayton by Alberta Party MLA Greg Clark.
Clayton confirmed this week she will investigate whether AHS breached the Health Information Act and the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act.
The letter was first posted on Twitter in early April by Dawn Marie Marchand, an Indigenous artist.
Marchand is friends with the mother of the 15-year-old girl and said she was very upset when the letter from the finance department of AHS arrived at their home.
Alberta Health Services said the mistake was an “inexcusable” data-entry error that never should have happened.