Parliament’s not covered by access laws. It should be.
It is crucial to our democracy for all federal institutions, including Parliament, to adopt strong and wide proactive disclosure policies. Champions of the right of access should seldom need to wait for a statutory instrument to take action.
The Access to Information Act (ATIA) is necessary because experience has shown, worldwide, that governments will not respect the citizen’s ‘right to know’ without a legal requirement to do so. There are strong incentives for ministers and public servants to withhold informatio...
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