The information commissioner is responsible for handling complaints from Canadians who have difficulty obtaining government records under the Access to Information Act due to delays or the refusal to release files.

The federal information commissioner would be given new powers to order the release of government records to requesters under legislation tabled today.

The bills will signal the government's intention to fulfil key promises.

The bill will address concerns raised by the information commissioner over the RCMP allegedly destroying gun registry data in violation of Access to Information laws, Ralph Goodale said.

The public could be a step closer to knowing a jealously guarded federal secret: the number of people on Canada's no-fly list.

The Liberals are floating the idea of a ministerial veto over planned new powers for the information commissioner.

You'll no longer be asked to pay thousands of dollars to access public information.

The Liberals campaigned on a promise to strengthen the Information Commissioner. Her budget's smaller than it's been in years.

Thousands of pages of correspondence and briefing notes on the federal government's anti-terror Bill C-51 are so secret the government won't even disclose its reasons for censoring them.

The information commissioner is taking the Prime Minister's Office to court, accusing it of refusing to release documents about four senators embroiled in scandal.