Shawn Murphy at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On February 16th, 2011. See this statement in context.

February 16th, 2011 / 4:35 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Shawn Murphy

Thank you, Mr. Siksay.

There are a couple points I want to raise with you, Mr. Bass. Again, I want to thank you for your testimony.

First of all, there has been some evidence here in Canada, coming from the cities, that once they embarked upon an open government format, the number of inquiries they had come in under their access to information act decreased. In fact, one city has indicated that the decrease has been 50%.

I know it may be preliminary evidence on this question, but is there any evidence coming from the States that because of the additional information being posted online, the number of access to information requests may be decreasing?

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