Bob Dechert at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On October 29th, 2009. See this statement in context.

October 29th, 2009 / 10:35 a.m.

Conservative

Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON

In Professor Roberts' opinion, indeed.

Let me ask you a question about the number of information requests that have been processed in the last five years. I note from your own statistics that in 2003 the number of requests that were processed annually was 22,125, and that increased in the 2007-08 year to 30,530. That's a pretty substantial increase in the number of information requests processed; it's roughly a 38% increase over five years. To what do you attribute that increase in the processing of information requests between last year and 2003, for example?

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