The Information and Privacy Commissioner’s review last month found the government grossed just over $16,000 during the first six months of charging the fee.
A Green Party MLA tabled a private member’s bill Wednesday that would scrap the NDP-imposed $10 application fee for freedom of information requests.
When she tabled Bill 22, Citizens’ Services Minister Lisa Beare offered a $25 estimate. Shortly after it became law, cabinet set the price at $10. Olsen was on the all-party committee that reviewed B.C.’s freedom of information law last year and reminded the Legislature that the committee heard testimony that secrecy can undermine democracy and lead to extremism. NDP committee members blocked a recommendation to repeal the fee.
Olsen’s bill will proceed to second-reading debate. Private member’s bills, however, rarely pass in the B.C. legislature.
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