Sask. government launches inspection of northern village
The provincial government announced on Monday that it will conduct an inspection of the northern village of Pinehouse, a community of about 1,000 people located roughly 500 kilometres north of Saskatoon.
Warren Kaeding, the minister of government relations, said the investigation will focus on the village’s inability to fulfill freedom-of-information requests.“That really is our biggest concern. We have expectations with all of our municipalities that when they’ve been asked … the processes that are in place, to respond in an appropriate manner and unfortunately that wasn’t happening there,” Kaeding said.
The village’s administrative capacity to respond to the requests will be one of the things examined, the minister said.
The province’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ronald Kruzeniski, asked for an investigation in a Nov. 19 report.