‘COVID is just purely an excuse’: Advocates call for auditor general review of access to information regime

A September report from Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard found that nine separate complaints of access to information delay were 'well founded.'

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier overseas the Access to Information Act which governs how members of the public can request information from federal government departments. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

November 24, 2021

With government departments still citing COVID-19 as causing delays in processing access to information requests more than 20 months since the onset of the pandemic, those who use the system are asking why the government can operate as usual, but not the regime that gives it transparency. Experts a...

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