Access-to-Info System at Library and Archives Canada in ‘Bleak State’: Watchdog

Access-to-Info System at Library and Archives Canada in ‘Bleak State’: Watchdog
A Government of Canada sign sits in front of a Library and Archives Canada building next to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on November 25, 2014.The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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A new report says Library and Archives Canada is frequently failing to answer formal requests for historical records in a timely way.

The special report by information commissioner Caroline Maynard, tabled in Parliament today, says almost 80 percent of the requests handled by the national archives did not meet time-frames set out in the Access to Information Act.