What You Can Complain About
Administrative Fairness
You can complain if you feel you were treated unfairly through the decisions and actions of a public body listed below. You believe you didn’t receive a fair process, decision, or service or the public body acted differently than what law or policy requires. Your complaint can be about how you were affected by the administrative processes or operations of these public bodies:
- provincial government departments and agencies
- crown corporations
- health authorities
- Municipalities and local governments
- local government districts, planning districts, and conservation districts
- boards and commissions directly or indirectly responsible to the government
- colleges with appointed boards (Red River College and Assiniboine Community College)
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Access to Information and Personal Information Privacy Protection or Correction
You can complain about a public body’s response to your access to information request or your request to correct your personal information, or about how a public body handled your personal information. Your complaint can be made about:
- provincial government departments and agencies (including crown corporations, boards and commissions)
- the office of the executive council
- local government bodies (such as municipalities, local government districts, planning districts, and conservation districts)
- local public bodies including educational bodies (such as school divisions, universities, and colleges)
- health-care bodies (such as hospitals and health authorities)
- and any other body designated in the act’s regulations
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Personal Health Information Access, Privacy Protection, or Correction
You can complain about how your personal health information was collected, used, or disclosed or about your request to access your personal health information or have it corrected. Your complaint can be made about public bodies or trustees who hold your health information including:
- all public bodies that fall under FIPPA
- health professionals licensed or registered to provide health care (such as doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, etc.)
- health-care facilities (such as hospitals, personal care homes, psychiatric facilities, medical clinics, laboratories, community health centres, or other health care facilities designated in the regulations)
- health services agencies providing health care under an agreement with another trustee
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Serious Wrongdoing or Reprisal from Reporting or Asking About Wrongdoing/Whistleblowing
Learn more about being a whistleblower, reporting serious wrongdoing in a public body or reporting reprisal resulting from whistleblowing on the whistleblowing section of our website.