Transparency suffers supremely, Supreme Court labelling PMO/minister offices’ records ‘political’ a secrecy bonanza

The time to push for transparency is in the first year of a new government's mandate.

Just in the nick of time, the Supreme Court on May 13 unanimously gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper's majority government a secrecy stranglehold on keeping records from public scrutiny in the PMO and Cabinet ministers' offices.

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