{"id":37346,"date":"2023-05-26T16:48:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/?p=37346"},"modified":"2023-06-01T17:01:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T13:01:21","slug":"la-foi-est-elle-couteuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/la-foi-est-elle-couteuse\/","title":{"rendered":"La FOI est-elle co\u00fbteuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>By Prakash Neerohoo<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Le journal <em>L\u2019express<\/em> du 24 mai 2023 rapporte que le chef du gouvernement a refus\u00e9 au Parlement une demande d\u2019introduire une <em>Freedom of Information Act<\/em> (FOI) parce qu\u2019elle est \u201cco\u00fbteuse\u201d et que certains pays regrettent de l\u2019avoir introduite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37347\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/la-foi-est-elle-couteuse\/freedom-of-information-act-p-fesmedia-africa\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Freedom-of-Information-Act.-P-Fesmedia-Africa.jpg?fit=1200%2C676&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,676\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Freedom of Information Act. P &amp;#8211; Fesmedia Africa\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Freedom-of-Information-Act.-P-Fesmedia-Africa.jpg?fit=640%2C361&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37347\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Freedom-of-Information-Act.-P-Fesmedia-Africa.jpg?resize=640%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Freedom-of-Information-Act.-P-Fesmedia-Africa.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Freedom-of-Information-Act.-P-Fesmedia-Africa.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Freedom-of-Information-Act.-P-Fesmedia-Africa.jpg?resize=1024%2C577&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Freedom-of-Information-Act.-P-Fesmedia-Africa.jpg?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">L\u2019argument du co\u00fbt ne tient pas la route si l\u2019on se base sur l\u2019exp\u00e9rience de certains pays d\u00e9velopp\u00e9s, dont le Canada. Au Canada, la <em>Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act<\/em> (FIPPA) existe \u00e0 deux paliers de gouvernement: le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral et le gouvernement provincial. La FOI est un outil d\u00e9mocratique formidable dans la mesure o\u00f9 elle permet aux citoyens d\u2019acc\u00e9der \u00e0 des informations que poss\u00e8de le gouvernement sur les politiques publiques. Elle est fond\u00e9e sur le principe de la transparence dans les affaires publiques. En principe, la FOI permet l\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 des informations qui ne sont pas disponibles dans le domaine public (sites web, documents officiels).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sous la FIPPA, toutes les informations qui ont un int\u00e9r\u00eat public peuvent \u00eatre divulgu\u00e9es sur demande. \u00c9videmment, la loi pr\u00e9voit certaines exceptions qui ne permettent pas de divulguer des informations de caract\u00e8re sensible telles que les <em>Cabinet Papers<\/em>, les renseignements sur la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale ou les informations personnelles comme les dossiers fiscaux des contribuables. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">En g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral et les gouvernements provinciaux au Canada s\u2019acquittent bien de leurs obligations sous la FIPPA. Les citoyens, les m\u00e9dias et autres entit\u00e9s de groupe (partis politiques, cabinets de conseil, etc.) qui font des demandes d\u2019informations sont servis dans des d\u00e9lais raisonnables et \u00e0 un co\u00fbt raisonnable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dans mon exp\u00e9rience de sp\u00e9cialiste fiscal au sein d\u2019un gouvernement provincial au Canada, j\u2019ai eu l\u2019occasion de consid\u00e9rer des demandes d\u2019information sur la fiscalit\u00e9 en provenance de citoyens ou d\u2019autres parties priv\u00e9es. Je peux dire que toutes les demandes sont accept\u00e9es, sauf celles qui tombent sous les exceptions. Les clients ne se plaignent pas des frais qu\u2019ils doivent payer pour recevoir une information quelconque.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Le gouvernement lui-m\u00eame n\u2019a pas de frais \u00e9lev\u00e9s \u00e0 encourir pour traiter les demandes d\u2019information sous la FOI. Tous les fonctionnaires concern\u00e9s sont form\u00e9s dans l\u2019administration de la FOI et les r\u00e9ponses aux demandes passent au pr\u00e9alable par un contr\u00f4le rigoureux selon une hi\u00e9rarchie de responsabilit\u00e9 et de d\u00e9cision d\u00e9termin\u00e9e.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">En g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, la presse fait un usage judicieux de la FOI pour acc\u00e9der \u00e0 des informations non-publiques qui leur permettent de mieux comprendre un dossier ou une politique publique en termes de contexte et de perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">En mati\u00e8re de transparence, la \u201cdefault position\u201d est de r\u00e9v\u00e9ler autant que possible tout ce qui a un int\u00e9r\u00eat public, sujet aux exceptions r\u00e9glementaires.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Mauritius Times ePaper Friday 26 May 2023<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Prakash Neerohoo Le journal L\u2019express du 24 mai 2023 rapporte que le chef du gouvernement a refus\u00e9 au Parlement une demande d\u2019introduire une Freedom of Information Act (FOI) parce qu\u2019elle est \u201cco\u00fbteuse\u201d et que certains pays regrettent de l\u2019avoir introduite. L\u2019argument du co\u00fbt ne tient pas la route si l\u2019on se base sur l\u2019exp\u00e9rience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":37347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8274],"tags":[38248,4702,38250,38247,3689,38246,965,16779,38249],"class_list":["post-37346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-governance","tag-cabinet-papers","tag-canada","tag-dossiers-fiscaux","tag-fippa","tag-freedom-of-information-act","tag-freedom-of-information-and-protection-of-privacy-act","tag-good-governance","tag-prakash-neerohoo","tag-securitenationale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Freedom-of-Information-Act.-P-Fesmedia-Africa.jpg?fit=1200%2C676&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-9Im","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}