Secret cabinet orders continue to rise with 26 so far this year

The Trudeau government has withheld 87 orders-in-council from public release, a sharp increase compared to the 22 cabinet orders kept secret by the Harper government.

Of the more than 1,000 cabinet orders that have been adopted so far in 2022, the Privy Council Office has kept 26 of them secret. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

October 5, 2022

The Liberal government’s instinct to keep secret a small, but increasing, number of cabinet orders continues as 26 orders-in-council have been withheld from public listing this year so far, leading to calls from the NDP’s ethics critic for a legislative fix. To date this year, 26 adopted cabine...

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