The ruling comes in response to an attempt by the United Conservative government to block the release of the documents to a group of southern Alberta ranchers
The Alberta government must produce thousands of documents on its attempts to encourage coal mining in the Rocky Mountains after a judge threw out a bid to block their release.
“If public bodies are unwilling or unable to comply with their timely obligations under , they should expect that courts may apply a high level of scrutiny on the availability of judicial review.” Legislation says a public body has 30 days to make reasonable attempts to respond but may make 30-day extensions. Those extensions were imposed again and again and, after 15 months, the department released 30 pages of what it said were 6,539 records.
“Cabinet confidence is essential to ensure that the government can deliberate freely and unimpeded, but it does not exist to allow governing in secrecy,” Teskey wrote. “It is difficult not to look at the history of this matter and see the critical rights imbued by access to information as being largely illusory.”
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