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Ottawa spending record amounts outsourcing access to information requests

External consultants doing little to clear backlogs, data shows

Roberto Rocha

21 Jul 2023 4 min read

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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre holds up redacted documents during a press conference in 2020. Requests for government information often get delayed and censored as departments struggle to meet their legal obligations to release documents. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

Roberto Rocha
Roberto Rocha

Roberto is an award-winning journalist who specializes in computational methods for investigations. Before joining the IJF, he was a data journalist at CBC News and the Montreal Gazette.

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