The federal information watchdog has chastised the prime minister's bureaucrats for shutting down several requests from a researcher without good cause.
In a series of decisions made public Tuesday, information commissioner Caroline Maynard reveals the Privy Council Office simply closed four Access to Information requests to avoid missing due dates.
She found, however, that the PCO officials who process access requests were instructed not to keep a file open past its due date because of the agency's "no late file" policy.
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