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Access-to-information woes grow ever more absurd

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

March 8, 2011
Many people have grown tired of delays in the treatment of Access to Information requests. That frustration is set to grow as the government has now decided to sacrifice some files in a bid to put the best possible face on the massive backlog in the system… That process, however, leaves some files sitting in the system, because they have already been deemed to be failures and no amount of work can restore their status. “Once a file is late, it’s late.

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Bernier seeks end to $40-billion in social, health transfers to provinces

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Oct. 13, 2010
Maxime Bernier is criticizing his own government’s policies in areas of provincial jurisdiction and laying another plank in his platform for a future Conservative leadership bid… the former minister of industry and foreign affairs… would open the door to the private sector in the Canadian health-care system. “Instead of sending money to the provinces, Ottawa would cut its taxes and let them use the fiscal room that has been vacated. Such a transfer of tax points to the provinces would allow them to fully assume their responsibilities, without federal control,”

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