Applicants have had to go though complex and expensive court proceedings in recent years to enforce decisions to release public information. Former Liberal premier Stephen McNeil in 2013 had promised to grant the commissioner order-making powers but never fulfilled that pledge, calling it a "mistake." NDP Leader Gary Burrill says his party would be different from the Liberals on the issue of access to public information. Nova Scotia Information and Privacy Commissioner Tricia Ralph has said a recent request on N.S. She noted at the time Nova Scotia was the only province not to allow its information commissioner that kind of independence.

Source: CBC News August 02, 2021 19:30 UTC