Treasury Board should get out of the business of faking disclosures

Let's begin the real review of access-to-information suppression by booting Treasury Board out of any future role in access to information and get a neutral arm's-length agency whose actual goals include promoting and enacting full disclosures.

The Treasury Board, overseen by new president Mona Fortier, is fairly ineffective in its duty to either prevent or document record destruction, and ineffective at keeping records or promptly collecting them, writes Ken Rubin. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

February 14, 2022

OTTAWA—The Treasury Board thinks and acts like a privileged cabinet committee yet continues to handle federal disclosure policies with a bureaucratic and regressive fist. So putting Treasury Board in charge of future access policy and an access-to-information review that has taken at least two yea...

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