The information commissioner's office determined that "changing file numbers on access to information requests does not buy institutions more time to process requests." The office of Canada's Information Commissioner has found the Correctional Service of Canada negligent for not responding to an access to information request from CBC News for more than three years and taking another nine months to provide the documents in question. On May 4, 2012, CBC News asked the correctional service for information relating to the decision to close Kingston Penitentiary, Leclerc Institution and the Ontario Regional Treatment Centre. On Nov. 30, 2015, Diane Ré​gnier, team leader for CSC's access to information office, telephoned to ask CBC whether it would re-submit its request. The information commissioner's office stated that the due date for a timely response was June 3, 2012.

Source: CBC News June 02, 2016 09:00 UTC