Treasury Board President Mona Fortier putting together plan for making Access to Information Act more effective
Treasury Board President Mona Fortier says she hopes to share a plan in coming months for improving the key federal transparency law and how it is managed.
“Canada’s access-to-information system is struggling, it’s failing, and it’s causing a loss of confidence in our democratic institutions,” said Conservative MP Damien Kurek. The law has not been significantly updated since its introduction 40 years ago, and many users complain of lengthy delays, heavily blacked-out documents or blanket denials in response to their applications.
“Your review, in fact, has no legislative amendments,” he said. “Do you believe that no legislative amendments are necessary to achieve the outcomes that you’ve stated within the report?” For instance, she pointed to improvements to an online platform aimed at making it more efficient to submit a request and receive records.
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