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Annual Report: 2005-2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
MANDATE
 
CHAPTER I: A POLITICAL ROLLER COASTER RIDE
Low points
High points
Recurring themes: Delays
Recurring themes: Merger with Privacy
Recurring themes: Funding
Recurring themes: Professionalizing Access to Information Officers
CHAPTER II: DELAYS IN THE SYSTEM – REPORT CARDS

A. Report Cards: Part I
B. Report Cards: Part II

 
CHAPTER III: INVESTIGATIONS AND REVIEWS
Commissioner-initiated complaints
Systemic complaint received by the Commissioner
“Report Card” investigations
Non-systemic complaints from the public
Disposition of workload
Complaints in backlog
Completion times
Miscellaneous
Tables
CHAPTER IV: CASE SUMMARIES

Case 1 – Is a Fee Estimate of $1.6 Million Too Much?
Case 2 – Who Do the Department’s Lawyers Really Work for?
Case 3 – Keeping the Decision Record of IRB Members Secret
Case 4 – May a Government Institution Unilaterally Convert an Access to Information Act Request into a Privacy Act Request?
Case 5 – Secret Expense Claims
Case 6 – Gotcha!
Case 7 – Dead or Alive?
Case 8 – Disclosing Requester Identities
Case 9 – How Much Secrecy is Appropriate for a Draft Audit Report?
Index of Case Summaries

 
CHAPTER V: THE ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT AND THE COURTS
A. The Role of the Judiciary
B. The Information Commissioner in the Courts
     I. Cases completed
    II. Cases in progress – Information Commissioner as applicant/appellant
   III. Cases in progress – Information Commissioner as a respondent
   IV. Cases in progress – Information Commissioner as an intervenor
C. Legislative Changes
 
CHAPTER VI: CORPORATE SERVICES

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