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Information & Ethics committee I have waited more than seven years, yes.
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee There are certainly intentional roadblocks put up. I don't know. I don't think it's common. I think the problem has more to do with administrative failures—let me put it that way.
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee You may be surprised to hear this, but I'm for AI. I think AI has a role in this process. I mean AI that's responsible, AI that can be audited so that we know what goes on in the black box of AI we use for this system. I don't think we should be shy about looking at that kind of new technology to help streamline the processing of requests.
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee Do I believe that Canada is a democratic state? Yes.
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee Not adequately, no. I've been around since the act came into force in 1983, and it worked relatively well then—
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee Is the government transparent in certain ways right now? I'd have to have more detail. I don't know what you mean by “in certain ways”.
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee Do you want a yes or a no?
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee Well, as I tried to describe to you in my last appearance, the system is broken. It does not do what it was intended to do when Parliament passed it in 1982. It has been getting worse over the years. We are now at a point where journalists, for example, are abandoning it because it's no longer useful.
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee Well, again, are you asking me for a yes or a no?
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee People much smarter than I am—lawyers, for example—will tell you that, yes, it should be considered a human right, and there is UN language to promote that. I am just a more practical person. I just think that citizens in this country need to help hold their governments to account and have to know what their government is up to.
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee The statistics that we need to assess the performance of individual departments are collected by Treasury Board and the departments themselves. They're already suspect. It's also a very poor data collection system methodology. Many of the statistics that we read, such as the one the minister cited last week, are not reliable and are in fact misleading.
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee Thank you, committee members, for inviting me back as a witness as you wrap up your report on access to information. Almost three years ago, the then Treasury Board president announced a review of access to information. Monsieur Duclos said in June 2020 that the review would focus on three things—the legislative framework, proactive publication and the administration of access to information.
April 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Dean Beeby
Information & Ethics committee On that issue, if the record contains deliberations, then protect it. If the record is merely information provided to inform those deliberations, then do not protect it.
December 7th, 2022Committee meeting
Dean Beeby