A mixed review today from B.C.'s Information and Privacy Commissioner on Premier Christy Clark’s open government initiative.
Elizabeth Denham says progress has been made under the program launched in 2011, but more must be done.
Denham makes 18 recommendations including a call to post MLAs hospitality expenses and calendars online. Currently, only travel expenses of ministers and deputy minister are made public.
Denham also calls for less severing or "redacting" of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
But Technology Minister Andrew Wilkinson says it will take a while to make changes.
"There are a few things we've got to sort out in terms of international standards around these things and so over time, we've all seen that governments have become more and more inclined to disclosure, and we are on that path, and it's a matter of figuring the right way to go about it."
NDP House Leader John Horgan says opposition MLAs will begin posting detailed travel expenses online next month.
"We're going to be releasing those on a monthly basis rather than a quarterly basis which is what the Legislative Assembly Management Committee has approved. We're going to, every time we sign a form, at the end of the month, those forms will go up on the website of the NDP caucus and the individual members, so that their constituents can see where those funds are being spent."
Horgan is calling on the Liberal caucus to do the same.