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VICTORIA — After six years as Information and Privacy Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham left behind a long list of accomplishments when she moved on this summer to a similar posting in the United Kingdom.

One of the most notable remains a work in progress: the drive to persuade the B.C. Liberals to live up to Premier Christy Clark’s promise of greater transparency and openness.

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Denham took several runs at the Liberals on that score, capped by Access Denied, the lengthy report released last October that chronicled multiple abuses of the spirit and letter of access to information legislation by the Clark government.

“One of the most resource-intensive and technical investigations the office of the information and privacy commissioner has undertaken,” was how she characterized the effort in a wrap-up report released earlier this month.

Denham and her investigators enlisted forensic experts, seized and inspected computers and put key civil servants and political appointees under oath. One of the latter was caught lying a half dozen times about his familiarity with the process of triple-deleting as a way of permanently erasing politically sensitive emails from the public record.