The Senate’s turn to fix Bill C-58’s regressive nature

Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault, a major critic of the bill, had her term extended for two months and will be around to testify in front of a Senate committee studying the changes to the access to information regime.

Treasury Board President Scott Brison's Bill C-58, left, will get another shellacking from Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault when the legislation is studied by the Senate, Ken Rubin predicts. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

January 10, 2018

Last month, the House of Commons' Liberal majority got its way, approving the restrictive, anti-transparency Bill C-58. But once the Senate debates the bill in February, expect pushback and amendments to the legislation updating the Access to Information Act from a reawakened Upper Chamber. And exp...

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