Mr. Speaker, this is an all too convenient excuse.
According to the National Post , the commissioner said he had to threaten to go to the federal court to have the minister's office release the information that it had received 74 days earlier for authorization.
How can the Prime Minister accept his minister's explanations that the error was an honest one, when the information commissioner had to throw his weight around and even threaten the minister with legal action before he would finally conform to the legislation?