Ontario's information and privacy commissioner says the province should consider reducing or eliminating some of the fees charged for access-to-information requests. Federally, the fees that were being charged were $2.50 for every 15 minutes of time per person spent searching for records, with the first five hours at no charge.
In Ontario, the fee is
$7.50 for each 15 minutes of search time per person. The same fee is charged for each 15 minutes spent preparing a record for disclosure, including redacting information.
With so many FOI requests of this scandal-ridden Liberal government, the fees totalled $545,698.00 in 2015 alone.
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