Shouldn't that decision be the matter of interpretation not by the departments themselves but governed by the access to information coordinators and subject to judicial review should there be a disagreement as to whether something falls within the mandate of the Access to Information Act or not? Something being severed, once you delete electronic records it's the ultimate capital punishment of that particular record. It cannot be recovered. Therefore there can be no adjudication.
Is it normal policy or is it anywhere written that it is acceptable, whether it contains political records or not, that these records are eligible to be destroyed?