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When the federal government changed its mind about letting the Ottawa Hospital build a new Civic campus on the Experimental Farm across from the current Civic on Carling Avenue, I filed an access-to-information request to find out what happened.
I asked for any communications on the subject that went into or out of the office of the Minister of Agriculture, beginning in January 2013. How did Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz come to reverse his department’s clear position that building a hospital on the Farm was out of the question? What officials were consulted? What cases were made on either side?
The response: nothing. Not one thing in writing in advance of the decision. Not an email, not a memo, not a request for ministerial approval. Only a few drafts of notices that went to Agriculture Canada workers and some media lines, all of them after the decision had already been taken. Nothing with Ritz’s name on it, nothing that went to anyone more senior than his director of communications.
dreevely@ottawacitizen.com
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I asked for any communications on the subject that went into or out of the office of the Minister of Agriculture, beginning in January 2013. How did Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz come to reverse his department’s clear position that building a hospital on the Farm was out of the question? What officials were consulted? What cases were made on either side?
The response: nothing. Not one thing in writing in advance of the decision. Not an email, not a memo, not a request for ministerial approval. Only a few drafts of notices that went to Agriculture Canada workers and some media lines, all of them after the decision had already been taken. Nothing with Ritz’s name on it, nothing that went to anyone more senior than his director of communications.
dreevely@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/davidreevely
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