More MFOIA Background

"Heads of government institutions are not disinterested in the interpretation and application of the Access to Information Act and are likely to have an institutional predisposition towards restricting the public right of access and construing exemptions broadly.

. . . [I]f the Court were to confine its duty under section 41 to review ministerial refusals of access requests by deferring to ministerial interpretations and applications of the [Access to Information Act], it would, in effect, be putting the fox in charge of guarding the henhouse."