{"id":13842,"date":"2014-06-05T23:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T15:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13842"},"modified":"2014-06-05T23:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T15:02:30","slug":"info-watchdog-warns-access-system-fragile-as-complaints-to-her-office-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/05\/info-watchdog-warns-access-system-fragile-as-complaints-to-her-office-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Info watchdog warns access system fragile as complaints to her office rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_73053265.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13843\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_73053265.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_73053265\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_73053265.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_73053265-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">OTTAWA\u2014Complaints to the federal information watchdog about access to government records climbed 30 per cent last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">In her annual report, Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault says she continues to have serious concerns about the access to information system\u2014and the resulting harm to Canadians\u2019 right to know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The Access to Information Act allows people who pay $5 to request a variety of records from federal agencies\u2014from correspondence and briefing notes to expense reports and audits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The government is supposed to respond within 30 days, or provide good reasons why a delay is necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Legault renews her call to modernize the law\u2014which has barely changed since it took effect more than 30 years ago\u2014to ensure government transparency and accountability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">She says administrative fixes to the system, which are bearing some fruit, can only do so much.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u2014Complaints to the federal information watchdog about access to government records climbed 30 per cent last year. In her annual &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-headline","mauthors-jim-bronskill","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}