Information commissioner pleads poverty, Tory MPs say raise fees

If fees for A2I go to general revenue, how does increasing the fee generate more money for the department?

I think this Government has a great strategy. Underfund the departments they don't like till they are unable to do their jobs. Brilliant!

Or, in the case of Veterans Affairs, insitute bureaucratic impediments that makes it impossible to spend their money so they have to give it all back at the end of the year.

Or, in the case of health care, start hacking into transfer payments in the name of deficit control, download the entire cost of delivery onto the provinces, but still maintain dictatorial top-down control of how any money is to be spent via the Canada Health Act. Oh, wait, that was Chretien and Martin who are now considered heroes for their debt fighting, not Harper ......

jj and Thanos sitting in tree... "All we are saying, is The Lieberals did it first, the Lieberals did it worse, so give Steve a chance."

Andy's like the TeaBirchers in the US, except he's from the left instead of the right. Nothing bad ever happened before Obama's inauguration in 2009 according to the TeaNutters, just like nothing bad or political shenaniganny ever happened in Canada before Harper became PM in 2006 according to the hagiographers for the Liberal Party. Best and most obvious sign of a true ideologue when one grants such unstained exceptionalism to one's own side in defiance of all known facts.

"O'Toole even proposed a sliding scale, suggesting citizens should be charged no fee to ask for information about themselves, and $25 to $30 for all other information requests. Businesses — including commercial news organizations — would face a $200 fee for each request."

Seems like a reasonable suggestion.