Evidence of meeting #149 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was year.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
So 20% of your complaints are just there. That answers that question.
Now you have 2,000 left. I'm seeing that these requests come from across the board. I have numbers.
Where are the problematic departments? It could be that we have one or two departments where all these are washed up, because you have 500 out of 50,000. That makes about a 1% complaint rate.
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
Yes, it's 1%.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
You're looking at dealing with that, so that would take away 20% of your work. That's really good.
Where is the next biggest problem?
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
Based on the stats from last year, we received the most from the RCMP.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Is that the Canada Border Services? No, RCMP is the third one.
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
It's RCMP.
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
We received 370 cases from the RCMP.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
That was 370 and they had 3,800 requests the previous year, or whatever, so you got 10% of their actions or complaints, compared to 1%. The RCMP is a big one. Ten per cent of RCMP actions are people complaining against them.
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
Yes.
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
The CRA is our next one.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
The CRA, okay, and how many complaints have you received?
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
For the Canada Revenue Agency, we only received 183 from them.
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
They receive a lot requests.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
I have that it was 3,100 two years ago. I mean it's a lot, but they're getting about 5% complaining.
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
Yes. The next one would be Canada Border Services Agency, with 156.
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
Then it goes down to the Privy Council Office.
Liberal
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
There are 82.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
They have 820, so there's 10%.
Have you done the math to look at where your problematic...?
Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
Oh yes.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Okay, so are you not telling me, or do you not want to give me the list?