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CHEERS AND JEERS: Jeers to P.E.I.'s 2.5-year delay in enacting FOIPP changes

Jeers to the P.E.I. Department of Justice and Public Safety for dragging out implementing changes to the Island’s freedom of information laws. A review of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act was concluded in November with 27 recommended amendments presented to an all-party standing committee. However, the department says it will be 2028 before any of those changes are implemented, stating in an email, “We anticipate it will take much of 2027 for government subject-matter experts to analyze the recommendations and prepare the legislative amendments.” Liberal MLA Gord McNeilly, who took part in the review, has categorized the timeline as a “stall tactic” until after the next election. As the law is already written and the proposed amendments are written into legislation in other provinces, we can come up with no better explanation for this absurd delay.

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