FOI commissioner blasts B.C. government

February 13, 2009 11:02 AM

VANCOUVER — B.C.'s Information and Privacy Commissioner is criticizing the provincial government for what he calls its failure to tackle the chronic problem of delay in responding to freedom of information requests.

In his first annual report on FOI performance, "Timeliness of Government's Access to Information Responses", released Friday, David Loukidelis describes what he calls "an unacceptable pattern of government-wide failure to respond to access requests in as timely a fashion as it should."

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