Ms. Suzanne Legault at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On October 25th, 2011. See this statement in context.

October 25th, 2011 / 9:20 a.m.

Information Commissioner, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada

I frankly don't know.

I'm going to read to you from their document, “Guidelines for the Interpretation of Section 68.1 of the Access to Information Act”. I believe it was published just last month. I'll read this part verbatim:

Procedure applicable to CBC/Radio-Canada’s Access to Information Office

2. When, after reading an access to information request the person mentioned in the preceding paragraph

--the person with the delegated authority--

concludes that the requested information is excluded from application of the Act in its entirety by virtue of section 68.1, the information does not have to be provided to the Access to Information Office. Thus, an access to information request may be refused on its face.

That's the text in these guidelines.

So I'm very concerned about this.

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