This just in: feds want a more restrictive transparency regime

Successive bureaucrats have wanted to put a damper on the public use of access to information legislation. Now they have found hope in Bill C-58 and a willing dupe in Treasury Board President Scott Brison.

Treasury Board President Scott Brison and Canada's Access to Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault, pictured in these file photos. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can be counted on to have flights of open government flowery rhetoric, faceless bureaucrats have held to their beliefs that access users are to be tamed, writes Ken Rubin. The Hill Times file photographs

Opinion

October 9, 2017

OTTAWA—Successive bureaucrats have wanted to put a damper on the public use of access-to-information legislation. Now they have found hope in Bill C-58 and a willing dupe in Treasury Board President Scott Brison. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can be counted on to have flights of open govern...

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