Committee reviewing BC’s FOI Act extends deadline for public submissions for a second time

A Special Committee of the BC Legislature that is reviewing the province’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act has extended the deadline for public submissions a second time. The new deadline is March 15, 2010.

Information on the Special Committee and its members can be found on the Legislative Assembly
website.

Click here for more information on the review of the FOIPP Act.

Articles on Freedom of Information and the Legislative Review

B.C. government spends more energy dodging information access laws than obeying them
By Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun, February 4, 2010

How to Revive an ‘Eviscerated’ Freedom of Info Act
By Andrew MacLeod, TheTyee.ca

Recent submissions to the committee
FIPA
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Stanley Tromp, investigative journalist and author of the Canadian FOI Resource Website
Environmental Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria

For all submissions posted by committee:
http://www.leg.bc.ca/foi/submissions_received.htm