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Access to Information and Shared Services Canada

Shared Services Canada: Departments struggling to deal with surges in the number of access to information requests are bringing in outside help to deal with the resulting backlog, internal Treasury Board documents show, according to Metro News. On the note of the critical shortage of analysts, most offices cannot staff their vacant positions, which only exacerbates the influx situation, wrote Monique McCulloch, the access to information director at Shared Services Canada. The community needs to come together to administer a huge recruitment and development process . . . to rebuild the permanent capacity within the federal community and The federal government is using students and temp workers to bolster overwhelmed access to information offices, Torstar News Service has learned. The situation is the result of a critical shortage of access to information analysts, according to one director, leading to hundreds of casual workers that move from office to office. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.