Bungling bureaucracy: CAF leadership dropping the ball on transparency

It is evident that Gen. Wayne Eyre and his advisers do not understand that the Access to Information Act is a federal law, not merely a suggestion.
Outgoing Chief of Defence Staff General Wayne Eyre’s refusal to release his ‘openness and transparency’ speaking notes is both petty and petulant, writes Scott Taylor.

OTTAWA—In a string of recent articles, Ottawa Citizen reporter David Pugliese has exposed the senior leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces to be a bungling behemoth of misguided bureaucracy. 

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