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

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

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: Access to Information, ATIP, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, CTF, Human Righst Commission, Jeniffer Lynch 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: Access to Information, ATIP, Human Rights Commission, Jenifer Lynch Posted in: Blog Content 5 Comments