Ms. Caroline Maynard at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 17th, 2021. See this statement in context.

February 17th, 2021 / 6:30 p.m.

Information Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada

I agree, and COVID is just one more excuse, as you say.

Under the old act, unfortunately, my office and I only had the authority to make recommendations. If somebody was in breach of the timeline, I could recommend that they meet a new timeline. Now, I do have the authority to order an institution to respect a certain timeline. I've started doing that, and it has shown some changes.

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