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Information & Ethics committee  What we experienced in the eliminating of the fees is that requesters will often ask for larger volumes of documents. The institutions have not responded to those volumes as well as we were anticipating. Interestingly, the number of cases we have on delays and time limits is abou

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

Information & Ethics committee  Do you mean proposed section 6?

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

Information & Ethics committee  Proposed section 6, which was asking for the subject matter, the timelines...?

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. That disposition has been removed.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

Information & Ethics committee  Actually, there have been about 30 amendments made.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

Information & Ethics committee  I would say that three-quarters of those amendments were requested by my office or by my predecessor. What I would say is that the current version of the act is definitely a better bill than what we have currently. The act right now is 35 years old, and what is being proposed in

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

Information & Ethics committee  I think her call for changes has been responded to.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

Information & Ethics committee  The act still needs to be reviewed, and I'm really happy that one of the amendments is that there's going to be a mandatory review in a year and, after that, every five years, because as everybody knows, we haven't been consulted for Bill C-58. That's one of the issues. A lot of

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

Information & Ethics committee  I'm really hoping that Bill C-58 will be passed, yes, before....

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

Information & Ethics committee  The problem is that it's difficult to talk about this. I can only report in my annual report. In terms of numbers, we have issues with some institutions every year. The RCMP is having a really hard time getting resources. IRCC is doing very well. It gets 55,000 requests a year, a

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

Information & Ethics committee  I'm told that's one issue. They were asking their own members to go through the access requests to obtain their personal information. That has been fixed.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard

Information & Ethics committee  I can't comment on whether or not we had a complaint on this issue, but I can tell you that anything we see in the news, we follow. If there's a reason to start a systemic investigation, we think about it.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Caroline Maynard