Review of ‘broken’ freedom-of-information system to finally get underway in P.E.I. [Video]

Toby MacDonald has spent the past six years trying to gather all the information she can on what led to multiple asbestos breaches at her daughter’s Summerside high school, Three Oaks Senior High, during renovations in 2017.

Those renovations were conducted while students were still attending classes. Families were not initially notified.

In a recent video posted to social media, MacDonald laid out dozens of pages on the floor, from a response to one of her many freedom of information requests, in an effort to show much information had been redacted — that is, removed from the documents by the P.E.I. government before being released.

“All those squares?” she says in the video, referring to white boxes with black outlines, indicating where information has been severed. “That’s information that is being withheld from parents.”

MacDonald has reached a conclusion after her years-long quest for answers. Calling freedom of information on …