Friends Don’t Let Friends Withhold Information

So the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting (let’s just call them ‘Friends’) are a little upset with us for upturning some of their financial dealings with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). We sort of expected that.
In their response we were delighted to read that contrary what we had been told by the CBC, “All members of [...]

February 3, 2012 Tags: Access to Information, ATIP, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, CBC, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting Posted in: Blog Content 3 Comments

Sun News Network: Peter MacKay’s Expense Claims

December 21, 2011 Tags: Access to Information, ATIP, Bay, Bayerischer Hof, Istanbul, Krista Erickson, Munich, Peter Mackay, Sun News Network, Waste Report Posted in: Blog Content, TV & Radio 2 Comments

CTF Uncovers Details of Mackay’s $5,925 Grey Cup Trip, $3,167 for Boston Seafood Show

-$4,752 for a flight to Edmonton and back
-$3,167 for a flight to Boston and back to attend a “seafood show”
Peter’s Excellent Adventure: Part II (Edmonton)
Defence Minister Peter Mackay spent $4,752 for two one-way plane tickets to go to the 2010 Grey Cup in Edmonton.
Using Access to Information requests, the CTF found that the Minister’s Toronto-to-Edmonton [...]

December 16, 2011 Tags: Access to Information, ATIP, Boston Seafood Show, CFL, Grey Cup, Peter Mackay Posted in: Blog Content 2 Comments

CTF Uncovers MacKay’s $1,452 a Night Hotel Tab

-$2,904 for two nights in Munich hotel
-$2,310 for three nights in Istanbul hotel
Peter’s Excellent Adventure: Part I
Defence Minister Peter MacKay charged taxpayers $2,904 for a two-night stay at the luxurious Bayerischer Hof when he went to a security conference in Munich, Germany in February of 2010. MacKay arrived in Munich after attending an informal meeting [...]

December 16, 2011 Tags: Access to Information, ATIP, Bayerischer Hof, Ceylon Intercontinental Hotel, Istanbul, Muich, Peter Mackay Posted in: Blog Content 10 Comments

Gov’t Paper Flood to Cover Up Stimulus Advertising Cost: 200 Pages in a Single, Simple Request

As generals have their classic tactics in war – pincer, envelopment – governments have theirs in blocking the free-flow of information: paper flooding. A ‘paper flood’ is a torrent of documents sent in response to an Access to Information (ATIP) request with each detail buried in a vast pile of hardened pulp.
Recent requests by the [...]

March 8, 2010 Tags: Access to Information, ATIP, Economic Action Plan, HRSDC, Stimulus Posted in: Blog Content One Comment

$1.4 Million Investigation into Missing Mint Gold Busted by Taxpayer.com

Researchers at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) have busted the Royal Canadian Mint for the cost of its investigation into $15.3 million of “missing gold”. Using Access to Information requests, the CTF found that the total cost of the investigation – which concluded that the gold was in fact not missing – was $1,374,846.
Earlier reports [...]

February 23, 2010 Tags: Access to Information, ATIP, Busted by Taxpayer.com, Missing Gold, Royal Canadian Mint Posted in: Blog Content Comments Closed

Human Rights Commission Found in Breach of ATIP for CTF Requests

The Canadian “Human Rights” Commission (CHRC) has “placed itself in a position of deemed refusal” according to the Information Commissioner of Canada in response to complaints filed by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF). After months of wrangling with the federal government’s chief censorship body, the CTF was able to obtain records from the CHRC revealing [...]

January 28, 2010 Tags: Access to Information, ATIP, Canadian Human Rights Commission, CHRC, Human Rights Commision, Jennifer Lynch Posted in: Blog Content 12 Comments

Taxpayers Federation on the “Human Rights” Commission’s Lynch List?

After finally receiving some – but possibly not all – documents from a filed Access to Information & Privacy (ATIP) request by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission (CHRC) reacted strangely upon inquiring about where various receipts for Chief Commissar Jennifer Lynch are.
Contacting the CHRC’s ATIP Coordinator , the folks at [...]

October 23, 2009 Tags: Access to Information, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, CTF, Human Rights Commission, Jennifer Lynch Posted in: Blog Content 4 Comments

Access to Information? Nope!

The Canadian Press is reporting that Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has rejected recommendations by a committee to modernize Canada’s antiquated (26 years old) Access to Information and Privacy Laws. This should come as no surprise because:

It came from a committee; and
It would allow individuals and organizations to better track wasteful spending (which would make my [...]

October 15, 2009 Tags: Access to Information, Accountability, Obama, recovery.org Posted in: Blog Content One Comment

Jeniffer Lynch Providing Receipts Would “Unreasonably Interfere” with the CHRC

So it seems that Jeniffer Lynch and her “Human Rights” thugs are not only above the law when it comes to censoring innocent Canadians for their opinions, but that they are also above basic government accountability as well.
In a post yesterday, I indicated that the CHRC was not able to provide receipts for Commissar Lynch’s [...]

September 23, 2009 Tags: Access to Information, ATIP, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, CTF, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights Commission, Jeniffer Lynch Posted in: Blog Content 4 Comments