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Author: Christina Spencer, Ottawa Citizen
Publication Date: January 22, 2025 - 14:14
Beeby: Prying information out of government just getting harder
January 22, 2025
Treasury Board of Canada recently released fresh government-wide statistics about citizens’ use of the federal Access to Information Act in 2023-24. Among the most striking developments is a 10.5 per cent drop in the number of requests received last year, compared with the year before — the largest annual decline in at least a decade. That’s 5,520 fewer requests, from an all-time high of 52,377 requests filed in 2022-23. Read More
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