Overhaul Transparency Law by Adopting Long-Standing Calls for Change, Group Tells MPs

The Confederation Building reflects off the windows of a building in downtown Ottawa, on April 7, 2020. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

A pro-transparency group is telling MPs to retool the Access to Information Act by dropping the application fee, imposing tighter timelines to respond to requests for files and narrowing exceptions to the law.

The changes are among 18 measures outlined by the group Democracy Watch in a submission to the House of Commons committee on information, privacy and ethics.