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Paul Conlin, a partner in the Litigation Group and an expert in Privacy and Access to Information, explains in the Ottawa Business Journal why there are long delays in responding to federal Access to Information requests.

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Businesses generally use ATI to obtain information on government contracts and gain commercial intelligence to put them in a stronger position, or learn of new regulations under consideration.

But the relevance of this information decreases with time, notes Paul Conlin, an Ottawa-based lawyer at Ogilvy Renault specializing in government contracting and federal regulatory issues. "Information tends to be most valuable when it is timely," he says. "It creates a disincentive to file access requests if (a private company) doesn't think it is going to get any information for a period of six months or longer."

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