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CBC parts with documents, under protest

OTTAWA - CBC/Radio-Canada has handed over some, but not all, of the documents requested by the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.  And some of them remain sealed. The move follows an order by the Committee that the national broadcaster produce records requested under Access to Information by Quebecor Media and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.  CBC said Monday that it is complying with the order “under protest and with strong reservations about the purpose for which the documents have been requested”. "After serious consideration, we decided to provide the documents to the Committee this morning, but to seal...