David MayhoodAnother small example of many, many, many that could be cited showing how Canada's federal government wastes time & money covering politicians' butts instead of just doing their damn legally-required job. Anyone who has ever filed an Access to Information Request or written a demand letter to any minister will be familiar with it. Franz Kafka would be proud.
Robson Fletcher"Justice Kent Teskey warned the province that courts take a dim view of delay being used to neuter public attempts to understand how important decisions are made.
'The requesting parties have been practically denied access to the information they are entitled to at law and this court will not abet this conduct through the availability of judicial review,' he wrote in a judgment released Friday."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/judge-alberta-coal-documents-1.7174263
#ableg #alberta #cdnpoli #canada #coal #mining #foi #foia #foip #atip
Kara Finance
David Akin 🇨🇦From a PCO poll done in July but just recently uncovered with an #ATIP request: Just 7% of respondents consult a print newspaper daily for news. #media #cdnpoli
Going through PCO polling data just released via #ATIP. And there's this on trust in media ... Albertans really don't trust the media; Quebecers, on the other hand, do. #media #cdnpoli
PCO Polling Program says ... does climate change cause these extreme weather events? Nearly 1 in 5 in AB say: no. Quebecers say, hell, yeah. Data obtained by #ATIP
PCO Polling Program says ... those living on the coasts and in Quebec believe in the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. AB & MB/SK not so much. Data obtained by #ATIP
Franke James#FreedomOfInformation ??
I am very familiar with the government's methods to dodge accountability... From 2011-2012, I received 2,172 documents from 4 different Federal departments about me!!
Read more in excerpts from the chapter, Games "Bureaucats" Play, from my book, #BannedOnTheHill. They are all games I experienced firsthand, while digging for the truth about the government’s interference in my #climatechange art show...
The Globe & Mail just published a major project looking at how broken Canada's freedom-of-information laws are and Alberta is not even included in this analysis because every provincial ministry refused to provide records:
