Baird (Canada) plans to make Toyota papers public (looking into Toyota being charged criminally)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: The Star

Richard J. Brennan

OTTAWA—Transport Minister John Baird plans to open up the books on Toyota for all to see.

Baird told the Commons transport committee Thursday he intends to release more than 3,000 pages of detailed Transport Canada documents on the Japanese automaker to the committee within weeks.

“We will make it all available to you as quickly as humanly possible,” said Baird, who earlier this week said Transport Canada was looking into whether Toyota should be charged criminally for its handling of recent defects.

He said it should take about four days to redact private and third-party information in the documents and at least another 20 days to obtain consent from Toyota to release the information.

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