Proposed changes include bringing ministers’ offices under federal access law, setting a 60-day time limit on access requests and require automatic release of historical documents after 25 years
A united group of opposition MPs from three parties is calling for an overhaul of the federal access to information system – a move being resisted by the governing Liberals.system since October of last year, published aon Tuesday outlining proposed changes to the regime’s law and policy. Liberal MPs on the committee responded with a dissenting opinion.
In Ottawa, the parliamentarians studying the law heard from 42 witnesses across 11 public hearings. In an interview on Tuesday, John Brassard, Conservative MP and chair of the committee, said the report was a “strong rebuke” of the government’s own access review, which was published in December and widely“We’ve effectively created a template on how to fix what is a broken system in this country,” Mr. Brassard said. “It’s up to the government now to fix this system.
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. Instead, the “genuine thing to do,” Prof. Walby said, would be for the Liberals to implement some of these changes, irrespective of political leanings or machinations.
The Globe requested an interview with Ms. Khalid, Liberal vice-chair of the committee, but she declined through a spokesperson. In response to a written question, Ms. Khalid told a reporter to reach out to Treasury Board president Mona Fortier, whose department is in charge of administering the act.
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