Ottawa is frequently missing its legal deadlines and having to carry requests over into future years, according to report
The federal government is struggling to keep up with the onslaught of access-to-information requests it is receiving, frequently missing its legal deadlines to respond and having to carry requests over into future years, according to a new report.
In the 2022 fiscal year, Ottawa received a record 222,807 access-to-information requests. Four-fifths of those were directed to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada , a department that in recent years has been flooded with access requests from immigration applicants seeking to learn about their cases.
In 2016, 22 per cent of all non-immigration files were carried over to the next year, according to The Globe and Mail’s analysis. By 2022, the carry-over rate was 41 per cent. Sharon Polsky, president of the Privacy and Access Council of Canada, said she was happy that the number of access requests was increasing. “That’s good,” she said. “It reflects that Canadians care, and are fed up with being shielded from the reality of how their tax dollars are being used and what the people they elect are doing.”
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