Government should waive cabinet confidentiality on Emergencies Act deliberations

The government needs to remember that invoking the Emergencies Act should only ever be done as an act of public service, but invoking the act is not where its responsibility ends.

Minister of Justice David Lametti, pictured here speaking with reporters on Feb. 23, 2022, to announce the revocation of the Emergencies Act, invoked cabinet confidence in response to questions from the special committee investigating the government's use of the act. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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May 2, 2022

In the latter years of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, transparency was—well, not really a thing. In fact, the group Canadian Journalists for Free Expression gave the former prime minister the lowest grade possible for its transparency evaluation, an F-, ...

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