Senators crack down on ‘culture of delay’ in access-to-information regime

Changes the Senate Legal Affairs Committee is proposing to Bill C-58 include a 30-day limit to extensions beyond the initial 30-day window government departments have to respond to requests.

Senators on the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, including Conservative Claude Carignan, left, and Independents André Pratte, middle, and Pierrette Ringuette, right, have proposed changes to the government’s access-to-information bill, C-58. The Hill Times file photographs and photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHARELLE EVELYN

March 27, 2019

Senators say they are trying to tackle the “endemic” culture of delay in the federal access-to-information regime as they propose changes to a bill meant to overhaul the system, C-58. But the Upper Chamber’s sponsor of the government legislation says “delay tactics” are at play as the comm...

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