City hall under Mayor John Tory isn’t just struggling when it comes to delivering reliable infrastructure or providing quality public service — data suggests they’re also struggling to provide basic transparency about problems. Opinion by GraphicMatt
That ranks Toronto second to last among the ten municipal institutions that received the most requests last year, and puts the city way below the provincial average of 80 per cent for municipal institutions.
If these were academic grades, scores like that would have teachers writing “please see me” in red ink at the top of assignments. But under Tory, the trend has been bad. In Tory’s first term, the IPC reported an annual average compliance rate of 68 per cent for Toronto. In the first three years of Tory’s second term, the 30-day compliance rate has fallen to a dismal average of 53 per cent.
I point all this out not because I’m nursing some sort of media industry grudge. Yes, journalists rely on the FOI system to break stories, but it’s not just reporters who make FOI requests. The city’sreveals hundreds of requests from members of the public, businesses and researchers, on matters like property line dispute, noise complaint investigations and business licenses.
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