Senators blame bad bill, justice minister’s absence for long C-58 study

The access-to-information bill needed close scrutiny to turn it into ‘workable legislation,’ says committee chair Sen. Serge Joyal.
A Senate committee has complained twice about Jody Wilson-Raybould, pictured during her February testimony before the House Justice Committee, for failing to testify on legislative changes when she was justice minister.
A Senate committee’s work overhauling a bill meant to reform the federal access-to-information regime has been one of the Upper Chamber’s longest studies of a government bill, said its chair Senator Serge Joyal, a delay some Senators blamed on the five mont...

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