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The Access to Information Act (R.S., 1985, c. A-1) [1] (French: Loi sur l'accès à l'information) or Information Act is a Canadian Act providing the right of access to information under the control of a federal government institution.
In September 2008, a 393-page report sponsored by several Canadian newspaper groups, compared Canada's Access to Information Act to the FOI laws of the provinces and of 68 other nations titled: Fallen Behind: Canada's Access to Information Act in the World Context. [8] In 2009, The Walrus (magazine) published a detailed history of FOI in Canada ...
Following the budget, Parliament (the Canadian Parliament) will pass an Appropriation Act (called the 'Interim Supply') which will allow individual departments to spend 3/12th of their annual budget. (The Government of Canada Fiscal Year runs from April 1 to March 31.)
Canadian administrative law is the body of law "that applies to all administrative decisions, whether issued by front-line officials, ministers, economic regulatory agencies, or administrative tribunals, with interpretations of law and exercises of discretion subject to the same . . . rules."
The federal government also has the power to pose a reference to the Court on its own motion, as an original proceeding, without requiring leave from the Court. Leave applications are considered by the justices in groups of three. Only cases which raise questions of public importance are granted. [2]
NERSA said in its release that the tariffs were based on the cost of generation plus a reasonable profit. The tariffs for wind energy and concentrating solar power were among the most attractive worldwide. The tariff for wind energy, 1.25 ZAR/kWh (€0.104/kWh) was greater than that offered in Germany and more than proposed in Ontario, Canada.
In Canada v Schmidt (1987), the Supreme Court found that government decisions to extradite people are bound by section 7. Moreover, it is possible that a potential punishment in the receiving country " shocks the conscience " to the extent that the Canadian government would breach fundamental justice if they extradited people there, and thus ...
However, the act does not prevent the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from dissolving the legislature "when the Lieutenant Governor sees fit". [29] The law also allows the date to be moved forward to any of the seven days following the first Thursday of October in the case of religious or culturally significant holidays: the 2007 election was ...