(DOWNLOAD) "Reforming the Access to Information Act." by Canadian Parliamentary Review ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free

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Title: Reforming the Access to Information Act.
Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
Release Date : January 22, 2001
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 232 KB

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The recent imbroglio surrounding the Access to Information Commissioner's request for the Prime Minister's agenda books and the Privacy Commissioner's attack on that request provide a dramatic illustration of the need to overhaul Canada's federal freedom of information and privacy legislation. This article, by a long-time advocate of Access to Information reform, looks at the recent and unusual controversy between two officers of Parliament as well as the larger issue of what needs to be done to improve the laws they are charged to uphold. In response to a complaint from someone who had been denied access to the Prime Minister's agenda books, Information Commissioner John Reid took the Prime Minister's Office to federal court, as he is entitled to do by the access legislation, asking that he be allowed to examine the agendas to determine whether withholding them was justified. The Commissioner's application was upheld and the PMO's appeal has gone to the Supreme Court. At the time of this writing, the ruling of the Supreme Court was still pending.