DND spurns House committee request for roadmap to comply with info czar’s orders

The feds say the Department of National Defence treats orders from the information commissioner as a 'priority,' but won't commit to a timeline.

Minister David McGuinty's Department of National Defence is consistently one of the worst performers for complying with the Access to Information Act.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

February 4, 2026

The federal government says creating a plan and timeline for the Department of National Defence to comply with the information commissioner’s outstanding orders is “not feasible.”

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