House committee report mixes politics and partial fixes to Canada’s out-of-touch Access to Information Act

At least the recommendations go further in capturing some of what is needed to reform an access act that suffers tremendously from delays, exemptions, and administrative-avoidance practices.

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier told the House Access to Information Committee legislative amendments to the access act, if any, would have to wait until 2024-25.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

June 28, 2023

OTTAWA—The June 20 House of Commons Access to Information Committee report documents the broken access to information system and acknowledges that much has to be reformed. But it does not offer up a clear, immediate, and detailed road plan, a model freedom-of-information b...

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