If you are correct about Alberta's privacy laws then they are being misinterpreted and misapplied in a grotesque, Kafka-esque way.  Taxpayers are the ultimate employers of civil servants and are entitled to know how their employment dollars are being spent.

As I said in a previous post when this incident was first reported, if the Minister seriously means to stamp out this kind of behaviour (as she said) then she has to stamp on it.  That means stating publicly that the employee was fired for cause (if that is indeed what happened).  If the employee thinks that her privacy rights have been breached, let her sue.  Even if she wins, she loses because her bigoted self would be dragged through the mire of her own making yet again.  In any case, the Minister would have conveyed her message to other government employees, loud and clear.