Protecting a pedophile’s privacy – Dean Beeby’s newsletter

https://deanbeeby.substack.com/p/protecting-a-pedophiles-privacy

Publish Date: 2026-05-13 07:02:00

Canada’s privacy laws are supposed to protect ordinary citizens from unwarranted intrusions into their personal lives.

But they can also protect pedophiles. Dead pedophiles. Dead pedophiles from America.

Serial child abuser Jeffrey Epstein – convicted and jailed in 2008 for prostitution, including soliciting prostitution from a minor – was allowed to visit Vancouver in 2014, despite his U.S. criminal record.

His travel to Canada was revealed in the millions of documents released by the U.S. Justice Department and reported on by CBC and others.

CBC journalist Mike Crawley wanted to know how Epstein got into the country. He was told by a spokesperson for the responsible agency, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), that “we cannot provide comment on specific cases as a person’s immigration and border information is considered personal information and is protected by the Privacy Act.”

Epstein again sought entry to Canada as a temporary resident, but in 2018 the Government of Canada got it right: our consulate in Los Angeles refused to issue a permit, citing his criminal record. That’s also in the Epstein files, which the U.S. government released with no apparent concern for Epstein’s privacy. (American privacy laws are less restrictive than ours.)

Given the lack of explanation for Epstein’s mysterious 2014 visit to Vancouver, I asked under the Access to Information Act for all CBSA records on the case.

I recently got a response, if you can call it that: “Nothing disclosed.” The agency cited Section 19(1) of the Access to Information Act, which protects the personal information of another individual. You can read the rejection here:

And so one of the most notorious pedophiles in modern history carries his privacy to the grave, at least in Canada. People are guaranteed privacy for at least 20 years after their death, which means we might not get the full story of Epstein’s sojourn in Vancouver until 2039.

But what’s really being protected here is…

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