The Department of Community Services has agreed to give an 86-year-old man access to his birth father’s name, following the Novia Scotia privacy commissioner’s recommendation that it do so, CBC News reports. The disclosure was the culmination of the man and his family’s “lengthy battle” to discover the information, the report adds. However, the Department of Community Services said that the move won’t impact how adoption information requests are handled in the future. "Requests under the Adoption Information Act follow a separate and distinct process," said department spokeswoman Heather Fairbairn. “As a result, this decision has no bearing on the province's adoption disclosure services."
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