Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner is launching four inquiries into the province’s refusal to release results of its Alberta Next surveys in response to access to information requests by Postmedia.

The requests were filed last June and July. They sought early responses to online, multiple-choice survey questions on creating a provincial police service, establishing a provincial pension plan, and denying some immigrants social services, as well as open-form answers submitted through a feedback form at the end of the survey.

In all four instances, the province refused to release the records, which together amounted to around 600 pages of documents.

The inquiries were announced in letters to Postmedia and the premier’s office dated Monday that also set out a requirement for bot

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