Thursday, June 3, 2010

CBC hit for information access stonewalling

Canada's information commissioner is again smacking the CBC for stonewalling requests under the Access to Information Act. In her annual report, Suzanne Legault says the public broadcaster has wrongly withheld information and tried to overcharge on access requests. The CBC was one of dozens of Crown agencies brought under the access act three years ago, and it has since been the subject of hundreds of complaints. The commissioner and the broadcaster are in Federal Court, disputing access to information the CBC says is related to programming and therefore is exempt under the act. It's the second year in a row that the commission's annual report has singled out the CBC for criticism. Legault is acting information commissioner, but has been formally nominated by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to take the job on a permanent basis.

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