Shining light on Justin Trudeau’s stand on transparency

Unfortunately, Justin Trudeau’s private member’s bill would do little to ensure that Parliamentarians and the public would be entitled to know such things as the estimated Canadian Iraq war costs.

It’s been more than 30 years since Pierre Trudeau’s government passed weak access to information legislation. Today, his son Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau has put forward as a pre-2015 election gamut, a private member’s bill, “A Transparency Act” (Bill C-613)....

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