Kathryn Rogers, Student
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
12666 72 ave
Surrey, BC, V3w 2M8
(fx) 604 599 2106
(fx) 604 599 2106
January 28, 2019
The University of British Colombia
Office of the University Counsel
6328 Memorial Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
(fx) 604 822 8731
Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act please provide me with:
- Any information regarding donations (including money, manpower, time, land and space) made to the University of British Colombia by the Vancouver Aquarium, The Pacific Balanced Pinniped Society, Ocean Wise, The BC Salmon Farmers Association, and Marine Harvest Canada from January 2016 to January 2019
If there are any problems releasing some portions of the documents requested, please do not withhold release of all documents, but instead forward what you can release.
Please do not photocopy these documents, instead, send them in a PDF format via email.
You can reach me via phone; 604 599 2100, fax; 604 599 2106, or by email; kathryn.rogers1@email.kpu.ca.
Please advise me when all material is available for release.
Thank you,
Kathryn Rogers
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I was curious about an experiment that UBC was conducting with the Vancouver Aquarium using Western Alaskan Sea Lions. On first glance, the experiment seems inhumane and unnecessary. They have said that the reason for the experiment was to investigate feeding patterns, however, it's theorized that they are doing this to help the government justify another Sea Lion cull in these waters (there was a cull in the 1970s which resulted in a dangerously low number of sea lions and was damaging to orcas and other wildlife in our waters). From UBC I want information about donations made to the school by interests groups that would have something substantial to gain if sea lions were culled again. If any of the organizations did make donations to UBC, the experiment would be corrupted and the public deserves to know.
Note: there was no specific person to address my request to, so I hyperlinked the page in the letter.
Your idea for the foi request is a really interesting and unique topic! I would just say the fact you are requesting for "any information" might be excessive and you may end up getting piles and piles of documents! Overall I still think it's a pretty interesting topic!
ReplyDeletei think so that the request you made sounds me interesting and in explanation you said that public deserve to know so if this request is made i would like to know the details.
ReplyDeleteI can tell you are really passionate about our cute sea lion friends. Expose UBC! Well researched, Great!
ReplyDeleteWell written and worded request! The topic is clearly something that you are passionate about and was an interesting choice. My only note is that requesting "any information" could be dangerous if there are excessive amounts of info out there. Other then that really well done!
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