Officials on the Commons Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee are looking into a court battle between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault, the Ottawa Citizen reports. Citing the Access to Information Act, the CBC will not disclose certain information to the commissioner because it relates to journalism. The Federal Court has ruled that Legault can view the documents, but the CBC has appealed the ruling, the report states. MP Dean Del Mastro said, "my concern is that we have a public entity, the CBC, in court against the information commissioner of the House spending millions of dollars fighting each other."
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