CAJ urges MPs to reconsider ‘inherent’ secrecy in review of Access Act

'Secrecy is for those people who cannot rightly explain the decisions and actions they are taking to the public,' says Canadian Association of Journalists vice-president Sean Holman.

Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault, pictured right, has put forward 85 recommendations to 'modernize' Canada's access-to-information system. The Hill Times Photograph by Jake Wright

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

April 25, 2016

Canada’s current access-to-information system presents a “fundamental challenge” to democracy, was drafted by a political culture that favours secrecy, and MPs should question this “inherent” secrecy as they consider changes to the Access to Information Act, Sean Holman, vice-president of...

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