Summary
- Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner has had dozens of requests for public information ignored by the provincial government in the past year.
- Government ministries and agencies ignored 84 requests for documents to be made public.
- Only 45% of cases resulted in public bodies fully yielding information when requested by the commissioner.
- The opposition NDP argues that the government is not being transparent, and calls for the commissioner to be given more authority to compel the release of information.