* In Ontario and Quebec, the environment ministries are excluded from the analysis because they skewed the results. FOIs sent to each province's ministry generated large numbers of "no records" responses (89 per cent in Ontario and 62 per cent in Quebec). Additionally, these ministries represent the majority of FOI requests in each province (52 per cent in Ontario and 70 per cent in Quebec).
Alberta is excluded from this analysis because every ministry refused to provide The Globe with records.