‘In cleaning house, there’s a risk of burning down the village,’ says L. Ian MacDonald of the Federal Accountability Act

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has it wrong and Justice John Gomery had it right, says a University of Montreal political science professor who says the Federal Accountability Act will do little for accountability and do more to create extra layers of bureaucratic red tape.

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