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Environment and Climate Change Canada wins Code of Silence (dis)honour

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Former environment minister Catherine McKenna, now federal infrastructure minister, oversaw Environment and Climate Change Canada in the year for which it has received a critical 'award' for its departmental secrecy.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Feature

BY NEIL MOSS

May 4, 2020

For its departmental secrecy and a slow response to an access to information request, four journalism advocacy groups have awarded Environment and Climate Change Canada the 2019 Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy. With last October's federal election just months...

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