Fed Issue #37 -Access-To-Information request,employee shared only 12 documents, deleting 398

[mosquito]

Deleting documents that have been requested under the freedom if information act is a criminal offense .... any guess what will happen here? Openness? Accountability .....????


Watch here...
https://www.spencerfernando.com/2017...ccess-request/
It has been revealed by Opposition MP Pierre Poilievre that the Trudeau government received an Access-To-Information request at Shared Services Canada, for all documents containing the words “Liberal Party.”


However, rather than live up to their “open and transparent” talking points, it appears that the employee shared only 12 documents, while deleting a total of 398 documents.


What are they hiding? What don’t they want us to see?


Poilievre points out that deleting documents in that way would be considered a crime under the Access-To-Information Act.

[mosquito]

Getting worse and worse in Ottawa....

Failed Access to Information reforms the latest in a string of broken Liberal promises
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/...b-e9ac49dfe947

A few key points....
In fact, the Liberals’ new legislation is consistent with nothing more than the realization by all parties in all ages that if they don’t know what you’re doing, they don’t know what you’re doing wrong.

As one reporter pointed out, under the new legislation citizens won’t even be able to request information on what went on behind the scenes to arrive at the decision not to include PMO or ministers’ offices from access requests.

Not only do the new amendments not remove the exemption on advice to ministers, the government adds even more roadblocks. One amendment says information should not be dislosed, if the request is judged to be “vexatious or made in bad faith.”


The newly expanded exemptions will mean more redacted answers, similar to the one received by my colleague Marie-Danielle Smith earlier this month in response to her request for the briefing notes of former global affairs minister Stéphane Dion.

She was told “some” of the information she asked for had been exempted under the section covered by international affairs — followed by two pages on which every word was blacked out.

It’s a farce, and Brison has been around long enough to know the changes he’s just unveiled will not make the slightest difference to helping citizens understand the government for which they pay so richly
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Add this to the growing list of broken Liberal promises.

[yellow dog]

Yup and a recent poll revealed that the Liberal Government would get in again if an election were held today. Can't fix stupid.