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From the Toronto Sun

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s government is neither open or transparent
Lorrie Goldstein

While the Trudeau government committed itself to freedom of information when it was elected in 2015, it’s acting as if what it really believes in is freedom from information, based on the testimony of federal Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard before the Commons ethics committee this week.

She said government agencies, legally required to respond to FOI requests within 30 days, miss that target almost 40% of the time, ignoring the public, the deadline and the law.

In testimony first conveyed by Blacklock’s Reporter, Maynard said that as a result, her office is receiving thousands of complaints about the lack of timely responses to FOI requests — 1,000 this month alone — adding to a backlog of 4,000 cases awaiting decisions going back as far as 2010.

(New Democrat MP Matthew Green said one of his constituents has been told he will have to wait 80 years for the RCMP to release the information he wants.)

Maynard said departments are using the pandemic as an excuse for even longer than usual delays in releasing information under FOI and the government has not shown leadership in addressing this unacceptable excuse.

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