Justin Trudeau, in the Liberal Party’s 2015 election platform, vowed to make sweeping changes to access to information, but those changes were never adopted
President of the Treasury Board Anita Anand rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 18. In response to a House of Commons committee's request for the government to formally respond to it's report in June, Anand declined to act on the committee’s recommendations. She says the government will now review the federal access law in 2025.
“I just don’t see anything in the government response that gives me any confidence in any way, shape or form that they’re taking the issue seriously,” he said. “They’re just seemingly punting this down the road as they did in that initial report that was tabled before Parliament. I don’t understand it.”
Emelyana Titarenko, a spokesperson for Ms. Anand, said in a statement that many of the current challenges in access to information can be addressed without legislative changes. “We are committed to strengthening access to information by improving pro-active disclosure, operational capacity, processing tools, and digital solutions.”
Those and other access commitments in the Liberal Party’s 2015 platform were never adopted, though the government eventually made some changes to federal access law as part of Bill C-58, including abolishing all charges for requests beyond the initial $5 filing fee.
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