Access to information reform could compromise ‘quality of decision making’: ex-PCO chief

Public servants might think twice before straying from the government's lines when they put pen to paper, says Mel Cappe.

Treasury Board President Scott Brison, left, says he has to account for the objectivity of the public service while crafting changes to the government's transparency regime. Former clerk of the privy council Mel Cappe says making the public service's work public can have negative consequences. The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

April 12, 2017

One of the Liberal government’s plans to make ministers’ offices more transparent could undermine the quality of advice public servants provide to their ministers if not executed carefully, says a former head of the public service. Opening up ministers’ offices and the Prime Minister's Office...

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