Privy Council Office
One file number for two requests, a fifth refusal without reasons, and a clock the Office says has not started on a file it opened
Answer 24 Sept In writing.
The answer in full
A request filed on 24 September 2026 for the records on what becomes of the pension of a Governor in Council appointee dismissed for cause. The Office answered within nine hours. It created the file, recorded 24 September as the date of receipt, refused the fee waiver over the name of its delegate and without a reason, and wrote:
Please note, however, that the request is not considered complete until the prescribed $5 application fee has been received. As a result, processing of the request cannot begin, and the statutory timeline will not commence, until payment has been received.
Deputy Director, Access to Information and Privacy, Privy Council Office, 24 September 2026
Beneath the notice the Office forwarded its own exchange: the intake officer asked whether to create the request “as the fee has not been paid”, and the answer was “Yes. Please create the request”. The number assigned, A-2026-00582, is the number the same office assigned on 11 September 2026 to a different request, received on 8 September, on the federal response to the fertility rate. Two requests, sixteen days apart, one number. The Act runs its thirty days from receipt, subject to two sections on extensions and to none on fees, and the Office dated the receipt itself. This is the fifth waiver the Office has refused since 11 September, and the fifth without a reason after two written requests for them.