Amazing interview @Marty Bent. For anyone living in Canada, you’ll find a tool like this on your provincial government’s webpage. It’s a searchable list of who the FOIP coordinator is for any agency or public servant that you want to obtain publicly available information about. Here’s a clean link to an example from Alberta for instance.
Once you find out who the relevant coordinator is, you can make your request. View quoted note →

Find an Access to Information (ATI) Coordinator
Search the directory for a public-sector ATI Coordinator to help you access the information you need.