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Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault, is shown in Ottawa, May 31, 2012.
Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault, is shown in Ottawa, May 31, 2012.
(Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Federal access to information law ‘not up to par,’ watchdog says

Canada’s access to information law is “not up to par” with more progressive legislation adopted by other governments in the last decade, says the federal information commissioner.

As she kicks of a blue-sky review of the Access to Information Act, Suzanne Legault says she wants to see how the aging law stacks up against measures passed by the provinces and far-flung countries.