Off to a bad start: Treasury Board already wants to make access to information worse

With Treasury Board once again handling the first stage of the ATI review, you can be sure of more delays, more exemptions proposed, and more people being excluded from using access to information.

Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali shouldn’t sign on to his officials’ disastrous draft discussion paper that would make for a more dysfunctional access-to-information system, writes Ken Rubin.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

January 8, 2026

OTTAWA—Treasury Board officials announced last June that they were still very much in charge of the first stage of the access-to-information (ATI) review. That was after several concerned groups and individuals urged Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali to ensure the feder...

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