Commissionaires fight to keep finances secret

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Commissionaires fight to keep finances secret

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

By Don Butler, The Ottawa Citizen

 

The Canadian Corps of Commissionaires wants the Federal Court  to block the release of records it's required to file to obtain  untendered government contracts worth hundreds of millions of  dollars.

The corps filed an application for judicial review after Public  Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) decided in January to  release 208 pages of audit records in response to an Access to  Information request from Securitas Canada Inc.

The corps is a not-for-profit corporation that employs many  military veterans and former members of the RCMP. If the records are  disclosed, it says it will suffer a "devastating loss" of business.

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