Senate committee amends access bill, strikes key section in critic crosshairs

‘We have heard from the concerns of First Nations groups and the Information Commissioner about the potential for this clause to be misused,’ former minister Jane Philpott says in a letter to Senate Legal Committee.

Prior to her March 4 resignation from cabinet, former Treasury Board president Jane Philpott was the sponsor of Bill C-58, which makes changes to the access to information regime, and in a recent letter to the committee said the government was open to several amendments. The Hill Times photograph Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

March 6, 2019

Senators are putting forward significant amendments to a bill meant to reform the Access to Information Act, including striking a key section critics had warned would be used to limit access to an already broken system. The Senate...

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