Bill C-253

SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Access to Information Act to provide that, if a request for access to a record under that Act is still outstanding one hundred days after the request is received, the head of the government institution to which the request was made shall send a report to the person who made the request and to the Information Commissioner, setting out a full explanation of the delay and the projected completion date. The Information Commissioner’s annual report to Parliament shall include the number of such outstanding requests and identify the responsible government institutions.