Canada’s information commissioner says federal departments are already denying Canadians’ Access to Information requests based on new criteria set out in a bill tabled by the Liberal government that is not yet law.
Suzanne Legault told MPs on a parliamentary committee this afternoon her office already has received a handful of complaints from people whose requests for information or documents from certain departments were turned down because they didn’t meet three new specifications outlined in Bill C-58, the Liberal government’s proposed package of amendments to the federal Access to Information Act.
Section six of the bill allows a government department to decline to process an Access to Information request if the requester does not include all of the following details in their application: “the specific subject matter” desired, the “type of record” requested and a time frame for the requested documents.
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