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: , , , ,   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: , , , ,   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: , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  12 Comments

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: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  4 Comments

Jennifer Lynch Not Keeping Receipts?

It would seem that Canada’s “human rights” czar, Chief Commissar Jennifer Lynch is not able to produce receipts for a few global junkets that she has taken, at least not within the normal timeline prescribed for Access to Information requests.  In letters dated September 21, the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission indicated that it cannot provide [...]

September 22, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  2 Comments

Human Rights Commissars After Me

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have the KGB knock on your door, ask for directions to the corner store and walk away?  The other morning I had what I imagine to be a similar experience when I received this (see below) envelope in the mail.
After staring at it on my desk, [...]

September 3, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  5 Comments