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Is BC Ferries covering up for the Premier’s office?
The law of diminishing returns is operating at full throttle at the BC Ferries Corporation. When it comes to FOI requests, it seems the more ferry officials look for controversial documents, the fewer they find.
That would be one explanation for why BC Ferries originally responded to an FOI request from the BC Freedom of information and Privacy Association by saying they had located 189 pages of records (for a $900 fee), but seven months later can find only 33 pages of those documents (for $300).
Another possible explanation is that Ferry officials don’t want to embarrass the Premier’s office by releasing records the Premier’s office says don’t exist.
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The law of diminishing returns is operating at full throttle at the BC Ferries Corporation. When it comes to FOI requests, it seems the more ferry officials look for controversial documents, the fewer they find.
That would be one explanation for why BC Ferries originally responded to an FOI request from the BC Freedom of information and Privacy Association by saying they had located 189 pages of records (for a $900 fee), but seven months later can find only 33 pages of those documents (for $300).
Another possible explanation is that Ferry officials don’t want to embarrass the Premier’s office by releasing records the Premier’s office says don’t exist.
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