We urgently need a strong new duty-to-document law
A commentary by a longtime independent journalist and author of Fallen Behind, a book on freedom of information. His website is www.canadafoi.ca.
First, Section 13 of the act allows officials to seal records of policy advice. The trouble is that public bodies are applying the section too widely, to include all “facts and analysis” that were used to create that advice . This loophole needs to be plugged, and former NDP attorney general Colin Gableman and current Indigenous Affairs Minister Murray Rankin have pleaded for this reform.
While serving as a member of a 2015 legislative FOI review, Eby complained that the Vancouver School Board’s companies were FOI exempt, despite a minister’s pledges to cover them. “I’m having trouble understanding how in 2005 the government could say that they were going to do this, and in 2015 we still don’t have this in place,” he pleaded.
Its most contentious feature was to newly permit government to charge people an application fee for filing FOI requests, now set at $10 . Rankin, while serving as an MP, had denounced Ottawa’s $5 FOI application fee “as a tollgate on the public’s right to know.”
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