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April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  No, I haven't. The commissioner in particular has to go cap in hand every year, begging for more money because of the massive avalanche of complaints she gets each year. The government is not being proactive about that by any stretch, and the Information Commissioner continuall

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  Well, it's hard to provide hard evidence for motivation, but it's not difficult to understand why a government would think it has more important things to do than answer access to information requests. I just don't see how the incentive would be there for resources to be provide

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  The Treasury Board has initiatives of some kind to improve the system. I'm not the best to tell you about them. My experience over many years is that there's a lot of heat and not much light coming out of Treasury Board. I think there are people of goodwill in Treasury Board wh

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  I should say first of all that I think proactive publication is a red herring. I think it distracts our attention from the real problem, which is that the first part of the act empowers citizens to pull information from government and the second part talks about government pushin

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  Those are terms I don't....

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I probably have about 200 of them, if we can spare the time.

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I don't agree with the commissioner. I think legislative reform would reduce the strain on the system and would add clarity.

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  The $5 fee was there all along. It was there from 1983, so the application fee did not change.

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  Is that for me?

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  I think we have to keep an eye on Britain, New Zealand and Australia. They are the ones that are directly comparable, but I don't like to get into comparisons, because it's just a rabbit hole. We know the problems that exist in Canada, and we have heard solutions for more than

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  I think of a central information system. To be fair, this government is working on such a system, so that you can file at one portal online, but I think that portal needs to be enhanced so that it can also produce reliable statistics. That will go a long way towards giving us a c

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  Are you asking me again?

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  With respect, I think that's better asked of Mr. Conacher. I don't know Mr. Wernick's thinking on that, and it's not one of my recommendations.

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, she seemed to say Bill C-58 was the big improvement. Bill C-58 had some improvements. Order-making power was a half improvement. It also had some restrictions. It introduced for the first time the problem of frivolous and vexatious requests. Certain requests can be ignored.

April 25th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Beeby