Cabinet ministers’ offices regularly interfere in ATI requests, says Tory staffer

PMO urged staffers to pare down Access to Information documents before release.

Cabinet ministers' offices had been under orders to pressure bureaucrats to pare down the amount of information released under the Access to Information Act up until The Canadian Press recently broke the story on how one political staffer killed the release of a document, forcing the Prime Minist...

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