Francis Drouin at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

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

February 17th, 2021 / 6:10 p.m.

Liberal

Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

I would like to thank Ms. Maynard for staying with us much longer than expected.

I have some questions about the increased number of requests.

In 2018-2019, there were a total of 125,060 access to information requests. In 2019-2020, there were 149,570. In your report, Ms. Maynard, you indicate that in 2018-2019, 73.1% of requests were responded to within the prescribed time frame. In 2019-2020, that figure dropped to 67.4%.

Do you attribute this decrease of 5.7 percentage points to COVID-19?

Have you had discussions with government departments to find out why they have not processed all requests on time, other than the increase in the number of requests?

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