Blizzard of ATI requests at CBC

OTTAWA – Thanks to over 500 Access to Information requests in just three months, CBC/Radio-Canada is having to staff up its Access to Information Office CBC/Radio-Canada came under the Access to Information Act on September 1, 2007 and since then, it has received nearly 500 requests, “which is substantially higher than was anticipated, based on benchmarking against other organizations of similar size and scope,” says the Corp. “For instance, this is more than the number of requests typically received by the Department of Industry for an entire year. Amongst the Crown Corporations that came under the Act on September 1,...