Originally Published 2024.01.22 and Updated 2024.01.25 As part of our “FOI a Day” research, we continue to file and examine […]

New for 2023 FIPA sent its first national survey of Commissioners’ approaches to access regime evaluation.

In the spring 2023 sitting of the legislature, Premier Eby and Minister of Housing Ravi Khalon spoke in detail about […]

FIPA will always maintain and recognize that timeliness is a core performance measure in freedom of information. Access delayed is […]

For the past 30 years. FIPA’s advocacy has focused on the timeliness of the freedom of information process. We have […]

When we started this research, we recognized the possibility of a defensive reaction from the provincial government and some public […]

Multiple BC Governments committed to addressing the problem of deliberate record destruction that was revealed by the infamous triple delete […]

Trust is gained through transparency. Understanding how a freedom of information request is processed helps us better understand how to […]

An important first step was identifying who Information Access Operations, the central FOI processing unit of the BC provincial government, […]