RCMP fabricated response to access-to-info request ‘unacceptable:’ Goodale
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says it’s “unacceptable” that an RCMP employee fabricated a response to an access-to-information request.
Goodale says the individual involved was “at a very junior level” and has been disciplined.
The fabrication was revealed last week in a letter from RCMP Supt. David Vautour to Bruce Cheadle, a reporter for The Canadian Press who in May 2015 had requested information regarding the now-defunct long-gun registry.
Cheadle did not receive a response to his access request until March 1, 2016, but that letter was backdated almost five months.