Myths and mirrors of access
The access to information act isn't working. It's time for Parliament to re-assert the indivisibility of its supreme authority to devise laws and to instruct these officers to focus on their statutorily-defined functions, period.
As Churchill once said: "It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them." This maxim immediately came to mind when I read a transcript of the Oct. 29, 2009, meeting of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics during which Robert Ma...
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