A transparency failure conference, Facebook hijinks and dished-out government ‘info’

The culture of secrecy continues under the Trudeau government.

Facebook privacy violations and political parties' use of personal information are becoming more of a public concern. Canadian Christopher Wylie, a former research director with Cambridge Analytica, alleged the firm obtained personal data from some 87 million Facebook users to create targeted political campaigns for the 2016 U.S. presidential election. CNN screenshot photograph

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

May 21, 2018

OTTAWA—There is no doubt that public mistrust has been heightened by a growing list of government-managed exclusions of ministerial and other records. So it was intriguing to find out that one brainstorming policy idea, found in belatedly received Treasury Board records, was to hold a 'Failure Co...

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