Lisa Hepfner at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On November 21st, 2022. See this statement in context.

November 21st, 2022 / 3:50 p.m.

Liberal

Lisa Hepfner Liberal Hamilton Mountain, ON

Thank you, Chair.

Through you, I would like to direct my questions to Kirk LaPointe who was my boss and, I believe, the editor-in-chief at The Hamilton Spectator when I worked there back from 1999 to 2001.

I can attest that it's true that you have long been a proponent of the ATIP or FOI system. I've told this committee on a number of occasions that back in those days, we had a mandate. We had to file a certain number of FOIs every week or every month and I think that was your decision.

I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit more about why the volume of FOIs is so important to a journalist to be able to access information that way.

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