The real reason for government secrecy and it ain’t pretty: Ministers and senior officials regard the nation’s government as their personal and private preserve

One of the main characteristics of Canada's version of the Westminster model of government, inherited from Great Britain in the 1850s and modified less than it has been in Britain, is a high degree of administrative secrecy. In whose name is this practice maintained? The official answer is "the p...

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