A bereaved mother’s long battle to learn more about her daughter’s death has led the federal information commissioner to recommend changes to Canada’s access to information legislation on “compassionate grounds.”
Liette Savoie’s 17-year-old daughter Francesca died in a car crash in Bas-Caraquet, N.B. in the fall of 2007. The other driver pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death.
Savoie has been on a quest ever since to learn more about what happened that night — a quest driven in part by rumours on the Acadian Peninsula about a high-speed chase and a second vehicle.
In 2012, according to a recent Federal Court decision, Savoie requested
